A Second Version of the Teaching on Wedding Days

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 16:5

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There are those who present it in this wording: There we learned, a virgin marries on the fourth day and a widow on the fifth day. Why? Because a blessing is written concerning them. But is not a blessing written only on the fifth for the fish and on the sixth for the man? Bar Kappara says: The fourth day is the eve [the night-light] of the fifth, and the fifth is the eve of the sixth.

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