The Palestinian Talmud on R. Akiva’s Wife
It happened that R. Akiva made a city of gold for his wife. Rabban Gamaliel’s wife saw her and became jealous. She came and mentioned it before her husband. He told her, if you had done for me what she did for him, for she sold the braids of her head, gave them to him, and he studied Torah.
Adapted from the translation of Heinrich W. Guggenheimer.
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Adapted from The Jerusalem Talmud, ed. and trans. Heinrich W. Guggenheimer (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1999–2015), https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Talmud/Yerushalmi. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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