English translation — יחידות אור לטו"ב אד״ש ג: חתנים וכלות

Private audience of a group of bridegrooms and brides, may they live.

May the ¹Most High bless each one of you and all of you together among all of Israel,

with success in all your matters,

both in material and in spiritual matters,

and in success as is taken from Purim,

that it should be "light and joy and gladness and honor" ².

And in particular –

that all these preparations for the wedding,

and the wedding itself and the length of days and good years after the wedding,

should be in a manner of an everlasting edifice,

upon the foundations of Torah and mitzvah,

as they are illuminated and alive and endure,

according to the teachings of Chassidus,

the wisdom of truth.

And through that which one will resolve upon good resolutions even before the wedding –

it is "the Holy One, blessed be He, credits it to him as a deed" ⁴,

as the explanation of this ⁵,

that the Most High provides all the things that one needs,

together with "and He will sustain you" ⁶,

with the vessels ⁷ –

that one should be able to carry out all these good resolutions in actuality out of expansiveness,

both in material and in spiritual matters,

including the good resolution that the everlasting edifice should become a "house of gathering for sages" ⁸,

and to fulfill the mitzvah,

the first mitzvah in the Torah

(that the order in the Torah is itself Torah ⁹) –

"Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it" ¹⁰,

and be blessed with sons and daughters who engage in Torah and mitzvos.

And especially after one will increase in Torah and mitzvos even before the wedding,

all the more so on the wedding day and during the seven days of feasting,

and afterwards fulfill "they shall go from strength to strength" ¹¹,

length of days and good years after this.

And how good,

according to the custom of Israel which is accepted in many places,

that both the bridegroom and the bride should on the day of the wedding ¹² in the morning

(or at least before the wedding canopy)

give charity,

and likewise the fathers and the mothers and the relatives should also do.

And since all these charities are given in connection with the bridegroom and with the bride –

they add even more in "the blessing of Hashem",

beginning from this, that the preparations for the wedding should be as the Most High desires,

for the Most High desires as "the essence of good" ¹³ desires –

from His full, open, holy and broad hand ¹⁴,

and the wedding should be at a good and auspicious hour, out of joy and goodness of heart,

and in a manner of increasing and going and light.

It is also a fitting thing to participate in the joy of Israel in general,

and in particular the joy of bridegroom and bride,

for this is indeed analogous to the joy of the giving of the Torah ¹⁵,

and regarding this there is absolutely no limit ¹⁶,

as is ruled simply ¹⁷,

that all of Israel and all Jews must take part in the joy of bridegroom and bride,

and even those who are not on the site,

even those who know nothing of it –

nevertheless, the soul and the innermost aspect of the soul knows about it

(which is the essence of the soul and the essence of a Jewish body),

consequently it also takes part with all its vitality and joy and brightness in this joy of bridegroom and bride,

and all these things combine to hasten even more the marriage joy of the Most High with Israel,

as it is stated in the Midrash ¹⁸ that at the giving of the Torah there was "betrothal",

and "marriage" will be in the true and complete redemption through our righteous Moshiach,

speedily, in our very own days.

In continuation of the above

(the greatness of the matter of participation in the joy of bridegroom and bride) –

is that in order to also take part in the joy –

one will give each of you a dollar to give away the dollar

(or its equivalent)

on the wedding day and on the day of the wedding canopy,

for the merit of the bridegroom and bride,

and this should add even more to the blessing of Hashem for the bridegroom and bride and their families and all of Israel,

until that soon, very soon, will be fulfilled that "speedily...

there shall be heard in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride" ¹⁹,

speedily, in our very own days.