40th wedding anniversary
A wedding anniversary may have even greater significance than a birthday. Hassidim explain that marriage represents the fulfillment of the day of birth. However, the period of married life is generally greater than that between birth and marriage and as such represents the greater part of one's life on earth.
Marriage is like a tree. From a delicate seedling, its roots strengthen and grow, through warmth and loving care, and each year, when in full bloom, at the height of its glory, how nice it is to reminisce, and bring again to mind, the days when all was but a young sapling.
