Commentary for Yoma 141:19

ואמר רבי ברכיה אם רואה אדם שתורה פוסקת מזרעו ישא בת תלמיד חכם שנאמר (איוב יד, ח) אם יזקין בארץ שרשו ובעפר ימות גזעו

But are there years, which are years of life, and years, which are not years of life? - R'Eleazar said: These are such years of man as have changed from evil to good.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When sunshine comes again, the memory of evil days is so obliterated that they do not seem to have been experienced, lived at all.');">²⁴</span> Unto you, O men, I call.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Prov. VIII, 4.');">²⁵</span> R'Berekiah said: They are the disciples of the wise, who resemble women, and do mighty deeds like man.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Study makes them weak, like women. But in the fields of halachah they are mighty heroes. This maxim is included here, because the word 'ish' (Sir high priest) recalls a homiletical interpretation of the same word elsewhere.');">²⁶</span> R'Berekiah also said: If a man wishes to offer a libation upon the altar, let him fill the throat of the disciples of the wise with wine, as it is said: 'Unto you, O men, [ishim]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Connecting ishim with ishe, fire-offerings.');">²⁷</span> I call'. Furthermore did R'Berekiah say: If a man sees that Torah ceases from his seed, let him marry the daughter of a disciple of the wise, as it is said: Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground

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