Reason For Breaking Glass At Jewish Wedding. Jewish tradition is often specific. The destruction of the Jewish temples.
This particular video about breaking the glass is part of a larger series exploring the basics of Jewish Lifecycles. Others say the fragility of the glass reminds us of the fragility of relationships. A story of broken wedding glass first appears in the Talmud.
He found that the guests were very joyful and very boisterous - too joyful - so he took an expensive wedding goblet and crushed it.
May your relationship not crack like the glass. He saw that the Rabbis were growing very merry so he brought a precious cup worth four hundred zuz and broke it before them and they became serious. One interpretation is that the marriage will last as long as the glass is brokenforever. Breaking of the Glass As the ceremony comes to an end the groom or in some instances the bride and groom is invited to step on a glass inside a cloth bag to shatter it.