A. Some say that the Chuppah symbolises the marital home, which the groom built or acquired before bringing his wife there. There is also a Midrashic idea that the practice derives from the Giving of the Torah at Sinai which was like a formal union between God and the people of Israel; God was present first and then Israel arrived.

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