Can a Christians give blessings for a Jewish wedding?

[tulipbee]

My brother in law is getting married to a Jewish lady and they asked me to say something for a Jewish wedding or write something for them to say. Something like a blessing of some sort. How do I participate in that being a Christian. Please advise.

 

[tulipbee]

My wife was uncomfortable to say of give some sort of "Godspeed". Something like you know you shouldn't say that unless ...

 

[GreekOrthodox]

Is this part of the reception or the wedding itself? As part of the reception, you could make it fairly simple that "May God bless your marriage." I can't imagine that you'd be asked to speak in the synagogue, but in that case, I would politely decline and ask to speak at the reception.

 

[A_Thinker]

My brother in law is getting married to a Jewish lady and they asked me to say something for a Jewish wedding or write something for them to say. Something like a blessing of some sort. How do I participate in that being a Christian. Please advise.

Marriage is good ... ask God to bless it ...

 

[Tolworth John]

My brother in law is getting married to a Jewish lady and they asked me to say something for a Jewish wedding or write something for them to say. Something like a blessing of some sort. How do I participate in that being a Christian. Please advise.

I would suggest reading 1 cor 13 about the qualities of love.
End by saying this love is not the love between husband and wife but it is Gods love for us and that any life that is not spent in the service of God is a perversion of love.
So my prayer is that you will both seek to love God in your lives together.

Talk to your brother in law ask would he be happy with that and take it from there.

 

[Unqualified]

How does your sister fit the picture?

 

[PloverWing]

My brother in law is getting married to a Jewish lady and they asked me to say something for a Jewish wedding or write something for them to say. Something like a blessing of some sort. How do I participate in that being a Christian. Please advise.

Are they writing their own wedding liturgy, or are they following the form used in your daughter-in-law's synagogue? If they're constructing their own ceremony, then one possibility might be a reading from the Old Testament, since that's a Scripture text that's shared by the two religions. There are passages from the Song of Songs, for example, that are wedding-appropriate.

 

[The Liturgist]

Is this part of the reception or the wedding itself? As part of the reception, you could make it fairly simple that "May God bless your marriage." I can't imagine that you'd be asked to speak in the synagogue, but in that case, I would politely decline and ask to speak at the reception.

Indeed, we can completely appropriately, and I think we are obliged to, bless through private prayer and publicly, albeit in a manner that does not involve participation in another religion, the weddings of people who are our friends regardless of their faith. Thus speaking in a synagogue is probably not a great idea, but speaking at the reception is splendid.

In Iraq, the persecuted Yazidi religious minority (which is possibly a crypto-Gnostic emanationist type of heretical Christianity; their beliefs are highly obscure), which has a history of affinity for and with the Christians (they shielded Armenians during the genocide of 1915), have, according to some texts, a tendency to obtain the blessing of the priests of any Christian churches they walk by during their wedding procession.

 

[tulipbee]

Marriage is good ... ask God to bless it ...

does that include same sex marriages?

 

[tulipbee]

I don't see how blessing anything including marriage without Jesus.
Some here seems to be leaving Jesus out of the picture

 

[The Liturgist]

does that include same sex marriages?

Obviously not.

 

[The Liturgist]

I don't see how blessing anything including marriage without Jesus.
Some here seems to be leaving Jesus out of the picture

Any right believing Christian means “May you be blessed by God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost” even when we abbreviate it to God Bless You. The Jews requesting the blessing are inevitably aware of this, because they know that Christians believe in the Trinity and the Deity of Jesus Christ. So you are fine, as long as you don’t actually pray together with the Jews in the synagogue.

 

[hedrick]

I'd like to point out that not all Christians agree that we should avoid participation in Jewish worship. Both Jesus and the early Christians worshiped in the Temple and synagogue. Recent scholarship has made clear that this continued for centuries, despite attempts by some leaders on both sides to stop it.

I can't speak for all mainline Protestants, but my experience in both PCUSA and UMC does not indicate any problem in participating in Jewish worship.

I would have more problems with, e.g., Hindus, because of both polytheism and idolatry.

 

[RileyG]

does that include same sex marriages?

traditionally, no

 

[RileyG]

I would talk to your brother first, and tell him how you feel. If it's at a reception, I would have no problem with it. I doubt you would speak at a synagogue.

Is she Orthodox, Reform, or Conservative?

 

[tulipbee]

How does your sister fit the picture?

sister in law said she doesn't care. More like, she don't follow anything. She is probably doing it for her family or perhaps its a normal wedding to her.

 

[tulipbee]

I would talk to your brother first, and tell him how you feel. If it's at a reception, I would have no problem with it. I doubt you would speak at a synagogue.

Is she Orthodox, Reform, or Conservative?

don't know. probably none of above

 

[tulipbee]

I'd like to point out that not all Christians agree that we should avoid participation in Jewish worship. Both Jesus and the early Christians worshiped in the Temple and synagogue. Recent scholarship has made clear that this continued for centuries, despite attempts by some leaders on both sides to stop it.

I can't speak for all mainline Protestants, but my experience in both PCUSA and UMC does not indicate any problem in participating in Jewish worship.

I would have more problems with, e.g., Hindus, because of both polytheism and idolatry.

I didn't go but it was for for other reasons like avoiding a family member and covid

 

[RileyG]

don't know. probably none of above

Those are the three major Jewish sects.

 

[RileyG]

I didn't go but it was for for other reasons like avoiding a family member and covid

God bless you. Take care.