Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Reference for Sanhedrin 200:6

אלא משום דכתיב לא תעיל דויא בלבך דגברי גיברין קטל דויא הא שלמה אמרה (משלי יב, כה) דאגה בלב איש ישחנה ר' אמי ור' אסי חד אמר ישיחנה מדעתו וחד אמר ישיחנה לאחרים

<font>'A daughter is a vain treasure to her father</font>: through anxiety on her account, he cannot sleep at night. <font>As a minor, lest she be seduced</font>; in her majority, <font>lest she play the harlot; as an adult, lest she be not married;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. p. 517 top. The reference is to the three stages: [H], [H], [H], minority, majority, and ripeness. ');"><sup>11</sup></span></font> if she marries, lest she bear no children; if she grows old, lest she engage in witchcraft!' But the Rabbis have said the same: The world cannot exist without males and females; <font>happy is he whose children are males, and woe to him whose children are females</font>. Again if because of the following: 'Let not anxiety enter thy heart, for it has slain many a person!' But Solomon said likewise, Anxiety in the heart of man yashhenna [maketh it stoop].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H]; Prov. XII, 25. ');"><sup>12</sup></span>

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Happy is the man whom his own mouth hath not troubled; And whose heart hath not condemned him (?).
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