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Jewish Wedding Blessing
"... May
the Lord look upon you with favor
and grant you the greatest of all his favors..."
Jewish Wedding Blessing
This Jewish wedding blessing may be
pronounced by a rabbi or another Jewish wedding officiant at the very
end of the ceremony as the final blessing for the couple.
The blessing is appropriate not only for exclusively Jewish
couples but also for interfaith wedding ceremonies such as a
Jewish Catholic or Jewish Christian ceremony. This
particular Jewish wedding blessing is composed of three parts.
It is a "triple" blessing which symbolically indicates the
intensity of God's favor.
The Rabbi says:
1. May the Lord bless you and keep you.
2. May the Lord cause his face to shine
upon you and be gracious to you.
3. May the Lord look upon you with favor
and grant you the greatest of all his favors: