Shiur 10th of Tevet - Sheva Brachot Zucker-Reicher at the House of Rav Berland

'Tzipporah' (the wife of Moses) flew in the air; she became the radiant angel. She spoke the Ineffable Name and ascended to the heavens. They taught her the Ineffable Name; once, every girl knew the Ineffable Name. How does the High Priest succeed in overcoming everyone? It is written that the angels weep, the seraphim weep, the Shechinah (Divine Presence) weeps out of great fear. The High Priest is the tzaddik, it is Shimon HaTzaddik, in whose time the crimson thread would turn white, for our entire work is to whiten the crimson thread; therefore, on the eve of Yom Kippur, the maidens would go out to dance in the vineyards.

"Rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel said, 'There were no better days for Israel than the fifteenth of Av and Yom Kippur, on which the daughters of Jerusalem would go out in borrowed white garments, so as not to shame one who had none' (Taanit 30b, Bava Batra 121a). Yom Kippur is a day when one sits on the ground and weeps over all the transgressions and flaws from the sin of Adam HaRishon, not a day when one goes out in dances. Rather, from the moment they hung the crimson thread on the window, it would immediately turn white, and then everyone would go out in dances. When the Holy Temple is rebuilt, they will hang a crimson thread on the window and it will immediately turn white. For women, who are far from sin, because they did not sin in the sin of the Golden Calf, it turned white immediately; if she hangs the crimson thread on the window, by morning it must turn white."

"The Degel Machaneh Ephraim says in Parshat Bo that a wedding is literally Yom Kippur and even greater than Yom Kippur. 'But all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings' (Exodus 10), for Sheva Brachot is such a light that is drawn down for the entire year. 'Yet again there shall be heard in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride' (Jeremiah 16); we pray that the 'voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride' will continue for all of life. 'In the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem,' that the bridegroom and bride will never need to leave Jerusalem. For every hour in Jerusalem is like a thousand hours elsewhere. Every hour in Israel is like a thousand hours abroad, and every hour in Jerusalem is like a million hours abroad."