Avot de-Rabbi Natan on R. Akiva’s Wife

Rabbi Aqiva is destined to have all the poor condemned at the future judgment, for if they are asked: Why did you not study Torah? and they say: Because we were poor, they will be told: Was not Rabbi Aqiva the poorest of the poor? [ . . . ] But they say: Because his wife Rachel provided for him. At forty he went to study Torah. At the end of…