Wedding Words
What is a simhah?
This word means a happy Jewish celebration.
The special day before the wedding when the couple may be called to the Torah.
What is Shabbat?
The canopy the couple stands under during the wedding.
What is the huppah?
What guests shout after the glass is broken.
What is “Mazel Tov”?
The woman who became Isaac’s wife.
Who is Rebecca?
What is hatan?
The Hebrew word for groom.
The special Torah honor given to the bride and groom before their wedding.
What is an aufruf?
The drink the rabbi blesses before the couple sips it.
What is wine?
What the groom breaks at the end of the ceremony.
What is a glass?
Isaac’s father who wanted him to find a wife.
Who is Abraham?
What is kallah?
The Hebrew word for bride.
Something sweet people sometimes throw to wish the couple a sweet life.
What are candies?
The couple exchanges these during the ceremony.
What are rings?
One reason we break the glass is to remember this holy place that was destroyed.
What is the Temple in Jerusalem?
The servant sent to find Isaac a wife.
Who is Eliezer?
What is a ketubah?
The Jewish marriage contract.
The leader who performs the wedding ceremony.
Who is the rabbi?
These seven blessings are said at a Jewish wedding.
What are the Sheva Brachot (Seven Blessings)?
After the ceremony, people celebrate with this and dancing.
What is music and dancing?
Rebecca showed kindness by giving water to Eliezer and these animals.
What are camels?
What is kiddushin?
The Hebrew word for the wedding ceremony that means “making holy.”
The bride and groom invite these people to celebrate with them.
Who are guests? (e.g., friends, family).
The circle of the ring shows this kind of love.
What is endless love?
Sometimes the bride and groom are lifted up on these while people dance.
What are chairs?
The place where Eliezer met Rebecca.
The place where Eliezer met Rebecca.