Chuppah

The term refers to the wedding canopy chuppah in a Jewish wedding ceremony as well as figuratively this itself

The bride and groom are to the chuppah, the wedding canopy, out. The chuppah signifies the "roof over your head" and states that a house here is founded. Opened in four directions to the chuppah remind the house of the Jewish forefather Abraham, which had a door on each of the four sides to welcome guests warm.

Through its white coat showing the groom that for both a new life begins, as white as a new sheet. In addition, the white color reminded that this day is for the two as Yom Kippur ( Day of Atonement ). Therefore, the bride and groom also fast from dawn.

Under the chuppah, the bride circles the groom seven times. This is the shepherding role of women, who protects the whole house through love and understanding, remember. The number seven represents the seven days of creation, where the young couple is on the verge of creating their own "new world" together. Under the chuppah blessing spoken over wine and praise. The bride and groom drink from the wine together, so they share joy and sorrow with each other in the future life. At the ceremony heard the breaking of a glass, a still generally lived tradition to commemorate the 70 destroyed by the Romans in Jerusalem Temple. The glass was shattered once on a specially embedded for this purpose on the outer wall of the synagogue wedding stone.