Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 126:6

the scoffer, and contention will go out; yea, strife and shame will cease.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Prov. XXII, 10. ');">¹⁸</span> Raba further stated: A bad wife, the amount of whose <i>kethubah</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos. ');">¹⁹</span> is large,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which the husband, should he desire to divorce her, cannot afford to pay. ');">²⁰</span> [should be given] a rival at her side; as people say, 'By her partner rather than by a thorn'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., a bad wife is more easily corrected by subjecting her to the unpleasantness of a rival than by chastising her with thorns. ');">²¹</span>

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