Q. (When the ring went missing… see prior question.) Would it not be better for the chosson to take a coin or any other object of his belonging and avoid the wait?
A. The officiating Rabbi may have opted to wait until the ring was brought, presumably since any other object used may not have been truly acceptable to the Kallah. However, Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is that it is better to explain and convince her to accept now something else of value available and then later receive the ring, rather than wait and create such an extended hefsek (see Rosh Kidushin 1: 20.) He recommended that all Mesadrey Kidushin should inspect the kidushin ring prior to reciting the brocho.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a
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