- Q. See questions above. Do you need ten people to eat bread in order to recite Sheva Brochos?
A. In principle it is preferable that at least ten of the attendees should eat bread. (Shoel U’Meishiv Telisa’ah 1:198, Yabia Omer E.H. 3:11:6, Yalkut Yosef (Sova Semachot 1:16:4).
However, many Poskim allow sheva brachot to be recited even if only seven men ate bread, and some poskim even permit sheva brachot to be said if only three people ate bread, as long as there is a minyan in attendance. (See Pischei Teshuva 62: 8, Nitai Gavriel, Nesuin 102:2, Yabia Omer EH 3:11:6, and Otzar Haposkim 62:25:5 Either way, the bride and groom themselves had to eate bread. (Yabia Omer 6: 10:9, Tzitz Eliezer 13: 99:4, Otzar Haposkim 62: 25:6 ).
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a
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