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What role does the ketubah play in the chupah ceremony?

by Rabbi Naftali Silberberg

  

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It is customary for the Ketubah to be read aloud after the groom places the ring on the bride’s finger. Reading the ketubah has no Halachic significance, it merely serves as a separation between the two phases of marriage—kiddushin and nisu’in.

The honor of reading the ketubah is normally reserved for a Torah scholar—one who can read the Aramaic wording fluently.

After the ketubah is read it is handed to the groom who gives it to the bride.1 The ketubah is then put in a safe place for the duration of the wedding.

Footnotes

  • 1. In the event that the bride is a niddah, the officiating rabbi hands it to the bride in an unobtrusive manner.

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Torah
Torah is G–d’s teaching to man. In general terms, we refer to the Five Books of Moses as “The Torah.” But in truth, all Jewish beliefs and laws are part of the Torah.
Halachic
Pertaining to Jewish Law.
Ketubah
The wedding contract which features the husband’s various obligations to his wife. The focal point of the document is the financial compensation due to the wife in the event of the marriage’s dissolution through divorce or widowhood.