What is this breaking glass thing all about? Sure it’s fun to break things, but that’s not the only reason that we break glass at Jewish weddings! There are many different interpretations of this tradition. It reminds us that love, like glass, is fragile and must be protected. The glass is broken to protect the marriage with an implied prayer: “May your marriage last as long as it would take to repair this glass." The shattering of the glass concludes the ceremony on a high note. The glass-breaking is typically followed by a communal “mazel tov!”, which means “good fortune” in Yiddish and is the equivalent of “congratulations!”