Wedding Songs

Hebrew Songs For Wedding Readings

While browsing through Internet web pages to search for the Hebrew songs for wedding readings you need to know the specific readings that are performed inside a Hebrew wedding ceremony. When the gathering is already there, the bride and groom are introduced and the song that may work with the moment could be “Iz Gekumen Der Feter Nussen”, the end of the song presenting also the rabbi’s arrival to the wedding guests. Then the rabbi welcomes the guests reading the passage from “Colossians 3:12-14″ and according to this one the song that can work is “Shalom Alechem” which means ‘peace’. It is the message of peace, the state of mind that must dwell inside every guest once he/she attends to a holy celebration of love. This celebration must be also the one where forgiveness should prevail and patience should guide every thought, while all the complaints should be put aside.




The next reading which is an excerpt from “Corinthians” 13:4-8a preaching about the power of love, how kind and patient this is, and how love can be endless in its endurance and beauty. The passage from Genesis chapter 1:26-31 speaks about the creation of man with his power over nature as he is meant to reflect the image of God and the sixth day of creation to end up with God’s feeling of satisfaction for His creation. This reading can be accompanied by “Mah Tovu”, a song about man’s awe in front of the divine image of God dwelling in the house of worship, the place that the people gathered to honor the wedding couple, and as such God’s work.

Genesis 2:28-24 is the passage that is chosen to be read inside wedding ceremony as it is described the God’s will to create a partner for the man, revealing the woman as flesh of the man’s flesh, “for out of ‘her man’ this one has been taken”. A traditional Hebrew song for wedding readings can be the one to accompany this Biblical fragment: “Et Dodim Kala” where the groom is summoning his bride as it is reflected in the Genesis paragraph – that this is the reason why a man is leaving his mother and father, to go and meet his woman and the two of them to become one.

When the bride and groom are about to exchange the vows of commitment and sharing, the “Ephesians” reading is performed where the rabbi speaks about wives revering their husbands, as a husband is above the wife, comparing at the same time this subjection to the way church is subject unto Jesus Christ. In return husband must love his wife the same way he loves his own body, cherishing it and nourishing it. Therefore a song appropriate to this reading is “Dodi li” composed by Staneslow which reveals the act of joining between a bride and a groom.

After the pronunciation of husband and wife the “Ecclesiastes” 4:9-12 is read and “Shalom Alechem” ‘ ‘peace’ – can be again performed by the gathering. The reading from Mark 10:6-9 is again suitable for the moment of holy joining followed by Psalm 128:1-4 where the married couple is given the holy blessing with the wishful thoughts of procreating. Other songs that could be introduced during the Jewish wedding ceremony, according to the readings chosen by the rabbi, are: “”Dray Tekhterlekh” a song of the bride’s parents dedicated to their daughter who is leaving her parental house. “Mekhuteneste Mayne”, composed by Varshavsky is the bride’s father song toward his in-laws while he gives his daughter to the groom is also favored in the Jewish weddings.

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