<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Mishpacha (English edition, 2 November 2011, pages 70-72) reports a true incident where at a sheva berachos, relatives of the choson, sang, with the best of intentions, grammen [rhyming songs to make people laugh] which disclosed the &ldquo;not good&rdquo; behaviour of the choson whilst he was still unmarried. It included a verse on how he was almost arrested for reckless driving, and a verse on how he was suspended from his Yeshivah. The kallah who was totally unaware of these incidents in her choson&rsquo;s life was quite shocked to hear of these incidents and it soured up the relations of the newly married couple for many weeks. The moral &ndash; be careful what one says at a sheva berachos! </span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">There are shuls who give a sigh of relief when there is a Choson present on a Tachanun Monday or Thursday. Reading between the lines of a sarcastic article written &ldquo;In the Spirit of Purim&rdquo; by Rav Pinchos Jung, who is an author of many mussar books, there is a strong criticism of those who gabble off their tefillos. On the subject of Tachanun he writes: &ldquo;... But of course, tachanun is a rarity; if at all, it&rsquo;s only tolerated on Sundays, Tuesdays or Wednesdays &ndash; and we pay Chassanim top rates here. Actually, we had a shaaloh yesterday &ndash; two Chassanim attended. Opinions varied. Celebrate the morrow as a nidche? Skip Uvo Letzion? The machmirim did both. &lsquo;If in doubt, leave it out&rsquo;, they said...&rdquo; (Jewish Tribune London, 12 March 1976, page 9, extract has two words amended)</span></span></span></p>