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The berberisca dress or keswa-el-kbira (Arabic: الكسوة الكبيرة, 'the grand gown') is a traditional dress for a Moroccan Jewish woman for her wedding. Traditionally a father gifts his daughter a berberisca dress for her wedding and the first time she wears it is at the henna ceremony.
The groom will enter where the bride is; they will both get their henna done, and the groom will then offer the bride her mahr. Thus, the wedding is merely a dance and celebration. An important element of the henna night in both traditional and non-traditional henna parties is the dress adorned by the Palestinian women and the groom.
Jewish Wedding, Venice, 1780 Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme. Prior to the ceremony, Ashkenazi Jews have a custom for the groom to cover the face of the bride (usually with a veil), and a prayer is often said for her based on the words spoken to Rebecca in Genesis 24:60. [10] The veiling ritual is known in Yiddish as badeken.
Other customs include having each person attending the ceremony snip off a lock of hair and encourage the child to put a penny in a tzedakah box for each lock as it is cut. Sometimes, they sing a Hebrew song based on the Biblical verse Deuteronomy 33:4 : "When Moses charged us with the Teaching / As the heritage of the congregation of Jacob ."
Many cultures practice or have practiced initiation rites, including the ancient Greeks, the Hebraic/Jewish, the Babylonian, the Mayan, and the Norse cultures. The modern Japanese practice of Miyamairi is such a ceremony. In some, such evidence may be archaeological and descriptive in nature, rather than a modern practice.
Badeken, Bedeken, Badekenish, or Bedekung (Yiddish: באַדעקן badekn, lit. covering), is the ceremony where the groom veils the bride in a Jewish wedding.. Just prior to the actual wedding ceremony, which takes place under the chuppah, the bridegroom, accompanied by his parents, the Rabbi, and other dignitaries, and amidst joyous singing of his friends, covers the bride's face with a veil.
1902 postcard showing a badkhn addressing a bride at a Jewish wedding. A badchen or badkhn (Yiddish: בּדחן, pronounced and sometimes written batkhn) is a type of Ashkenazic Jewish professional wedding entertainer, poet, sacred clown, and master of ceremonies originating in Eastern Europe, with a history dating back to at least the sixteenth or seventeenth century.
French description of the Fadas ceremony (1888) In Jewish legal literature, the Zeved Habat event is cited as either taking place in the synagogue [13] during the Torah reading of the Shabbat service, when the father receives an aliya, or the ceremony may take place at the home [13] [14] in the course of a festive meal. [19]