Women Should Look at Me

Continuing to discuss Rabbi Yochanan’s beauty.
Rabbi Yochanan would go and sit
by the entrance to the ritual bath.

Yochanan:	When Jewish women come up from their immersion for the sake of a mitzva, after their menstruation, they should encounter me first, so that they have beautiful children like me, and sons learned in Torah like me.
This is based on the idea that the image upon which a woman meditates during intercourse affects the child she conceives.
Rabbis:	Isn’t the Master worried about being harmed by the evil eye by displaying yourself in this manner?
Yochanan:	I come from the offspring of Joseph, over whom the evil eye does not have dominion, Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a fountain"