“When our love was strong, we could have made our bed on the blade of a sword. Now that our love is no longer strong, a bed sixty cubits wide is not large enough”
—Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 7a
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“When our love was strong, we could have made our bed on the blade of a sword. Now that our love is no longer strong, a bed sixty cubits wide is not large enough”
—Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 7a
Find more Wise Fridays wisdom on MJL.
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