EH – Lesson 008 – Periya uReviya 3 – Para. 3-6 – Parshas Kedoshim – Wedding Customs – Ashes – 10 Types of Song

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Periya uReviya 3 – Parshas Kedoshim – Wedding Customs – Ashes – 10 Types of Song – Ketores – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 3. The deeper meaning of joy of a wedding.
02:53 – PARAGRAPH 4. The ten types of song, musical instruments.
16:00 – The obligation to play a musical instrument at a Jewish wedding.
17:03 – BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about the music at the wedding of Rabbi Michel Dorfman zal in the Ukraine.
17:42 – By custom, only one musical instrument is permitted at a Jewish wedding in Jerusalem, to diminish joy in commemoration of the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash.
18:34 – Custom of putting ashes on the head of the chatan as a sign of mourning for the Beis HaMikdash.
19:03 – Zohar: Bereishis 186 – the inspiration for union in marriage comes from the north. This is an aspect of King David’s harp at midnight.
19:59 – INTRODUCTION to PARAGRAPHS 5 and 6. These sections are based on Likutey Moharan 54: music, song, nigun.
22:31 – Sighing and groaning can be transformed from sadness into joy.
38:35 – PARAGRAPH 5. Ketores. שֶׁמֶן וּקְטֹרֶת יְשַׂמַּח־לֵב וּמֶתֶק רֵעֵהוּ מֵעֲצַת־נָפֶשׁ – “Oil and incense make the heart rejoice, and the sweet words of his friend more than one’s own counsel” (Mishlei 27:9).
41:23 – ***Saying the Korbonos with concentration during Shacharis inspires a deep level of simcha throughout the day.
PARAGRAPH 6. Parshas Kedoshim. The service of the ketores is related to marriage and the husband’s obligation to make his wife happy. Nadav and Avihu, the sons of Aharon HaKohen, were killed while they brought the Ketores because neither of them was married.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel. Timings approximate.