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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: throwing candy
Message-ID: <1684@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 10:56:03 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 24 10:56:03 1985
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In article <3780096@csd2.UUCP> martillo@csd2.UUCP (Joachim Martillo) writes:
>In re marriage Goitein records the following Yemenite Jewish proverb.
>
>    Man enjoys life only twice, when he marries and when he dies.
>
>I am not sure what it is supposed to mean.
>
Maybe that at these times he realizes how (relatively) good he has had
it up until then... :-)?