Jewish Couple Married For 91 Years With 64 Grandchildren Are Still Deeply in Love
Zacharias and Shama’a were Jewish orphans born in Yemen. Their marriage was to prevent them from marrying outside their Jewish community. The couple Zechariah and Shama’a, who were 12 and 10 years old respectively when they got married.
Since then, they have spent their entire lives supporting each other.
Together they have struggled with poverty, persecution and other challenges, but they have come a long way from their beginnings.
Coming from a life of poverty, and facing pєrsєcutíσn, Zacharias and Shama’a first began their marriage without a place to call home. The couple resorted to cleaning out a barn and living there temporarily.
“We didn’t lick honey in life. There was no worse suffering that we had experienced. There is none. We had no house. We cleaned the donkey’s barn and lived in it.”
The couple managed to emigrate to Israel in 1948, when they were in their early 20s, to avoid Jewish persecution.
They currently have 11 children, 64 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Apart from love, it is dry wit that keeps them going. The couple constantly stitches each other up. “Remember, this is my first and last wife I married. And I never threw her out.”
The couple’s touching story was shared on Instagram, warmed many hearts and also attracted a lot of reactions. Some of the reactions are captured below:
“The true love! A couple who really love each other is stronger than anything else in the world, it’s beyond our knowledge!”
“91 years I couldn’t manage mine for 91 days.”
