Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 236:19

<br><br><big><strong>הדרן עלך האשה שלום</strong></big><br><br>

R. Papa said: Though her husband be a carder<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] 'flax-beater'; Aruk, [H] 'a watchman of vegetables'; a very poor and humble occupation. ');">⁴⁸</span> she calls him to the threshold and sits down [at his side].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To show her friends that she is a married woman. She is proud of her husband despite his lowly social status. ');">⁴⁹</span> R. Ashi said: If her husband is only a cabbage-head<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] 'dull', or 'ugly' (cf. last.); 'of a tainted family' (Rashi). ');">⁵⁰</span> she requires no lentils<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Regarded as a cheap food. ');">⁵¹</span> for her pot.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the sake of a married life, a woman willingly renounces all other pleasures. even the enjoyment of the poorest meal. ');">⁵²</span> A Tanna taught: All such women<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'and all of them', those married to the unlovely types of husband mentioned. ');">⁵³</span> play the harlot and attribute the results<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'and hang (it) on'. ');">⁵⁴</span> to their husbands.

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