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On our daf we find if, just prior to the wedding, one of the parents of the bride or groom passes away,
does the wedding celebration take precedence over the funeral and mourning, or must the wedding be postponed?
We review the recently unpublished Sefer of Rav Elyashiv zatzal’s rulings on nissuin and other halachot regarding the intersection of aveilut and nisuin and Rabbi Maurice Lamm’s review.
This leads us to explore the relationship between love and death in the wedding rituals of Greek tragedy (Agamemnon) as well as Lindbeck’s review of the folklore motif of "the Sacrificial bride" with two stories in which a bride saves her bridegroom, the first by appeal to God, and the second by offering her own life, (in the first tale, the bride argues with the angel of death to save her bridegroom; from the Midrash Tanhuma.)