Why Break Glass At Jewish Wedding. In a way though the broken glass is bittersweet. Jewish tradition is often specific.
This is it the time has come. Mar the son of Ravina was having a wedding for his son. You can interpret this ritual in many ways.
The act of breaking a glass is an expression of sadness that we cannot celebrate the marriage with our Temple still standing.
With so much preparation carried out for this very moment the ring placed upon the finger every guest in the room hurriedly preparing their iPhones to take a shot and clearing their vocal chords to shout Mazal Tov its time to. There are some who claim that it represents the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. He found that the guests were very joyful and very boisterous - too joyful - so he took an expensive wedding goblet and crushed it. This is it the time has come.