Wife taking care of seriosly ill Husband

 Bava Metzia (84b) R. Eleazar son of R. Simeon's fears were not allayed that he had sinned by advising the Roman police. So he undertook a penance. Every evening they spread sixty sheets for him, and every morning sixty basins of blood and discharge were removed from under him. In the mornings his wife prepared him sixty kinds of pap, which he ate, and then recovered. Yet his wife did not permit him to go to the schoolhouse, lest the Rabbis discomfort him. Every evening he would exhort them, Come, my brethren and familiars!’ whilst every morning he exclaimed, Depart, because ye disturb my studies! One day his wife, hearing him, cried out, You yourself bring them upon you; you have already squandered the money of my father's house! So she left him and returned to her paternal home. Then there came sixty seamen who presented him with sixty slaves, bearing sixty purses They too prepared sixty kinds of pap for him, which he ate. One day his wife said to her daughter, Go and see how your father is faring now. She went, and on her arrival her father said to her, Go, tell your mother that our wealth is greater than theirs [sc. of his father-in-law's house]. He then applied to himself the verse, She is like the merchant's ships; she bringeth her food from afar. He ate, drank, and recovered, and went to the schoolhouse. Sixty specimens of blood were brought before him, and he declared them all clean. But the Rabbis criticised him, saying, ‘Is it possible that there was not [at least] one about which there was some doubt!’ He retorted, If it be as I said, let them all be males; if not, let there be one female amongst them. They were all males, and were named Eleazar, after him.