Has a friend or acquaintance invited you to a Coptic wedding ceremony? If so, you may have more than a few questions running through your mind right now — like what the dress code is when a Coptic Orthodox wedding normal wedding attire is just fine!
Okay, here goes! The Copts or Coptic people are a denomination of Christians living in present-day Egypt. Although Muslims comprise the majority of the Egyptian population, Coptics are still one of the largest Christian groups in the Middle East.
Although the language is still in use, many Coptic speak Arabic as well. The Coptic written language is a combination of the Greek alphabet and Egyptian hieroglyphs—these being the more advanced, simplified versions of the early Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. The kallah will wear a modest gown and circle the chatan seven times. This resembles the seven days that the world was build, so will the home the new couple build be blessed by Hashem. Kabbalists explain it that there are seven walls of evil that surround a person before marriage that falls when the kallah circles the chatan.
In Jewish law, marriage takes place when the chatan gives a ring to the kallah. This is called kiddushin. There are a few Jewish wedding traditions on which type of ring to give. All are in common that it will be a simple ring. The kallah does not give a ring to the chatan in a Jewish orthodox wedding.
Orthodox Jews always yearn for the rebuilding of the Temple and the coming of Messiah. Therefore during every joyous event something will be done to symbolize the destruction of the temple.
During a Jewish wedding, the chatan will break a glass with his right leg. After the kiddushin the ketubah will be read. It will be read most of the time by the Rabbi leading the wedding ceremony or by another prominent family member. The ketubah is an ancient form that just needs to be filled in the chatans and the kallahs name. It can be found in any local Judaica or online.
After the reading of the ketubah the seven blessings of marriage will be recited over a glass of wine. There is no obligation to stick it out, and often by the end of it, many of the people remaining are relatives and close friends.
Often there are bochurim, and others, still around, waiting to bentch and say sheva brachos at the end. Note: This is my experience, garnered from the weddings to which I've been. Feel free to correct anything I've gotten wrong or missed, or to broaden it to include your experience for example, I have little knowledge of the kabbolas panim and what's going on on the women's side. If you feel this is similar enough to other customs and want include those, go ahead; just make sure to edit in which groups it applies to.
Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Asked 8 years, 4 months ago. Active 8 years, 4 months ago. Viewed 6k times. Improve this question. Community Bot 1. A room is often rented for hours so maybe that is a good number. But some weddings are structured differently so there can't be a universal answer.
For the parts that make it a "Jewish" wedding, i bet you can get it all done in under 30 minutes, no frills, beginning to end. Danno, so are you proposing an answer or answering "no"? I think the meta section is out of scope. In those days the betrothal was the more important of these two events and maintained its importance as long as marriage was actually based upon a purchase.
But as women assumed more importance as individuals, and marriage ceased to be a purchase, attaining moral significance, the actual wedding became more important than the betrothal. During biblical times, even before the Babylonian exile , Jewish life evolved and changed in many ways, including the attitude toward women.
Over time, women came to be regarded as endowed with personalities just as were men. Even as far back as early biblical times, we find traces of a new moral attitude towards women. For instance, although a man was legally allowed to marry more than one wife, barring kings and princes, very few used this right.
As a rule, the ordinary Jew lived in monogamous marriage. In Sephardic communities polygamy has never been outlawed, and several sources relate that Christians in Muslim Spain were scandalized by the not infrequent cases of Jewish polygamy. At the beginning of the 20th century, an actual Jewish marriage record during the period of the return from the Babylonian exile was discovered — the oldest marriage contract in Jewish history.
The marriage did not take place in Palestine or among the exiles in Babylon, but among the Jews of Elephantine and Aswan, at the southern border of Egypt. Following this declaration of betrothal, all terms of the marriage contract were written in detail. As-Hor paid Machseiah, the father, five shekels, Persian standard, as a mohar for his daughter. From this we gather that the mohar that fathers received for their daughters was then merely a nominal payment, the formality of an older custom.
According to the marriage contract, Mibtachiah had equal rights with her husband. She had her own property which she could bequeath as she pleased, and she had the right to pronounce a sentence of divorce against As-Hor, even as he had the right to pronounce it against her.
All she had to do was to appear before the court of the community and declare that she had developed an aversion to As-Hor. We do not know to what degree the equality of rights enjoyed by Jewish women of Elephantine was due to Jewish or to Persian-Babylonian law. In references to marriage throughout the Bible, the mohar was paid and gifts presented, but a written contract was never mentioned.
Modern critics of the Bible have agreed that on the whole, the Deuteronomic law is a product of the century preceding the Babylonian exile.
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