R. Akiba gave his wife a gold wrist. The wife of Rabban Gamliel saw this and, tormented by envy, came and told her husband about the wrist.
“My friend,” Rabban Gamliel remarked to her, “did you imitate R.’s wife?” Akiba at the time when she cut off her braids and sold them to give her husband the opportunity to study the Torah in peace?
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru