Tuesday, July 4, 2017

minhag - Sources for/about breaking a plate at a wedding


Are you aware of any literature that either provides a source for or discusses the significance of the two mothers breaking a plate at the "Tisch" at a wedding?


It's not hard to find mentions of this custom on the Internet along with various supposed meanings, and I suspect that it may be a purely mimetic tradition whose meaning is whatever people make of it. However, if there's serious discussion of it in the literature, I'd like to read about it.




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