7 | On Encircling kabbalistic tradition that God made Adam and Eve seven hupot – canopies – in the Garden of Eden, and hence this is the custom in Jerusalem . 3 The custom of cirumbulating the bride is exclusively Ashkenazic, and not found among the Sefaradi communities . Others refer to the seven firmaments mentioned in BT Hagigah 2 b . 4 See also Aaron Ahrend’s article “Hakafat ha - Hatan al - Yedei ha - Kelah be - Shaat ha - Hupah, Sidra 7, 99 , pp . 5 - , iv, who claims that this custom originated in East European Jewish Communities, no later than the early fifteenth century . The encircling creates a protective barrier to protect the bridegroom from harmful forces . ( See above chapter 4, section “The bride encircle the groom three times . ” ) However, interestingly enough, it is not mentioned in the Wormser Minhagbuch ( vol . 2, pp . 2 - 3 ) , nor in the response of R . Moshe Minz ( ed . Y . S . Domb, Vol . 2, Jerusalem 99 , pp . 534 - 535 ) . On the parallelism between burial cu...
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