Reference for Bava Batra 292:1

אמרה ליה מן יהיב לן מכותבות דיריחו ואכלנא ביה נפל עלה חורבה ומתה אמרו חכמים הואיל ולא נכנס אחריה אלא לבודקה מתה אינו יורשה:

She said to him, 'Would that one gave me of the dates of Jericho and I would eat with it.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Jericho was famous for its dates which were so sweet that radishes had to he eaten with them to mitigate their excessive sweetness. ');">¹</span> [Thereupon] the ruin fell upon her and she died. The Sages decided:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Where the husband claimed her possessions as her heir. ');">²</span> Since he only followed her in order to test her,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And had he found her to he defective, as he suspected, he would have insisted on divorcing her, he forfeited thereby his rights to be her heir. As soon as one determines to divorce his wife, if she were found to be suffering from some defect, he loses the privileges of an heir unless a reconciliation between them subsequently took place. ');">³</span> he is not [entitled to be] her heir [if] she died [during the test]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since in that case there was no time for their reconciliation before death took place. ');">⁴</span>

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