[Avodah] To Stand or Not to Stand for a Chosson and Kallah

[Zev Sero]

On 1/11/2011 6:04 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> Why is it that everyone stands for the chasan and kallah at a wedding,
> but so few of us have a minhag to stand for Lekha Dodi? There we have
> a kalah, and in some nusachos, she is identified with "Shabbas Malkesa".

Surely everyone stands at least for the last verse, where she's welcomed
in.


> (I just noticed the femanine form, as opposed to the girsa in shas
> we discussed in the past that had "Shabbos Malka", with an alef, in the
> masculine.)

That's because it's based on kabalah.

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