<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Gershon Dubin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gershon.dubin@juno.com">gershon.dubin@juno.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
When we were about to walk our son to the chupa, the caterer asked us to stop, and start out "the last mile" on the right foot. Is there any Jewish reason/source for this?<br></blockquote><div><br>Shulchan HaEzer (published by R' Yitzchak Tzvi Leibowitz of Tchop in the 1930s) mentions the minhag in <a href="http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=8556&st=&pgnum=66">7:4:2</a>, and notes that <a href="http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=22486&st=&pgnum=41">Sefer Mat'amim</a> (published by R' Yitzchak Lepietz of Shedlitz in the late 19th century) also mentions it.<br>
<br>Joshua Meisner<br><br></div></div><br>