Quoting%20commentary for Kiddushin 58:19

אמר רב חסדא האי דעדיפנא מחבראי דנסיבנא בשיתסר ואי הוה נסיבנא בארביסר

R'Huna was thus in accordance with his views. For he said: He who is twenty years of age and is not married spends all his days in sin.' In sin' - can you really think so? - But say, spends all his days in sinful thoughts. Raba said, and the School of R'Ishmael taught likewise: Until the age of twenty, the Holy One, blessed be He, sits and waits. When will he take a wife? As soon as one attains twenty and has not married, He exclaims, 'Blasted be his bones!'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [MS.M. , 'May he be blasted'.]');">²⁰</span> R'Hisda said: The reason that I am superior to my colleagues is that I married at sixteen.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that my mind was entirely free for study.');">²¹</span> And had I married at fourteen,

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