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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I'll preface this by saying that I'm a bur (bura?)
am ha'aretz (can't feminize that, sorry) about gemara and halakha, but I always
thought that a hazaka is a presumption (as in, "presumption of innocence", for
example) and is not meant to be understood as an absolute statement.
Thus, tav lemeitav would mean: we *presume* that, all other things being equal,
a woman would rather stay in a lousy marriage than be alone, but not that this
presumption applies in every single case. Is this a hopelessly mistaken
understanding of hazaka?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Kol tuv,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Simi Peters</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>