Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 126:18

אמרו לו לבן עזאי יש נאה דורש ונאה מקיים נאה מקיים ואין נאה דורש ואתה נאה דורש ואין נאה מקיים אמר להן בן עזאי ומה אעשה שנפשי חשקה בתורה אפשר לעולם שיתקיים על ידי אחרים

A bad wife is a plague to her husband. What remedy has he? — Let him give her a letter of divorce and be healed of his plague. A beautiful wife is a joy to her husband;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'happy is her husband'. Cf. Ps. I, 1. ');">⁵⁹</span> the number of his days shall be double.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Ecclesiasticus XXVI, 1. Every happy day is as good as two (v. Rashi). ');">⁶⁰</span> Turn away thy eyes from [thy neighbour's] charming wife lest thou be caught in her net. Do not turn in to her husband to mingle with him wine and strong drink; for, through the form of a beautiful woman, many were destroyed and a mighty host are all her slain.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Ben Sira (Ben Zeeb ed.) IX, 8, 10, 11. ');">⁶¹</span>

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