Note 168 — II. OUR DUTIES. (continued 4)
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The canopy or chuppah168 represents symbolically the future home of the married couple, which they have to guard as a sanctuary, and to render inaccessible to evil deeds, words, and thoughts that would pollute it. The top of the canopy, which is formed of a curtain (פרכת) of the Hechal, or of a talith, expresses the idea of sanctity.