Nikt nie może powstrzymać się od (micwy) prokreacji, jeśli nie ma dzieci. Beth Shammai mówi: Dwóch mężczyzn [pochodzi od Mojżesza, który oddzielił się od swojej żony po tym, jak spłodził dwóch mężczyzn]. A Beth Hillel mówi: Mężczyzna i kobieta, napisano (Rdz 1:27): „Mężczyzna i kobietą On ich stworzył. " [A Mojżesz nie może służyć jako precedens, gdyż działał zgodnie z Boskim fiat.] Jeśli ktoś poślubił kobietę i żył z nią przez dziesięć lat bez posiadania dzieci, nie może zaprzestać (od micwy). [Jak stwierdzamy u Abrahama. Po dziesięciu latach życia z Sarą i braku dzieci poślubił Hagar. Czas, w którym mieszkał z nią poza Eretz Yisrael, nie jest wliczony, ponieważ życie poza ziemią mogło się przyczynić (do jej bezdzietności). I cały czas, kiedy mężczyzna lub kobieta są chorzy, uwięzieni lub w jakimkolwiek innym stanie, w którym wspólne zamieszkiwanie jest wykluczone, nie jest to wliczane do okresu dziesięciu lat.] Jeśli on rozwiódł się z nią, może poślubić inną. [Za to (bezdzietność) może wynikać nie ona, ale jemu. A kiedy się z nią rozwodzi, daje jej (ilość) jej kethuba, jeśli ona twierdzi, że jest to spowodowane tym, że „nie strzela jak strzała”. A my nakładamy na nią zakaz, jeśli ona wie inaczej i wysuwa przeciwko niemu fałszywe roszczenia.] Drugi może żyć z nią dziesięć lat. A jeśli poroniła, liczy on od czasu, kiedy poroniła. Micwa spłodzenia dzieci spoczywa na mężczyźnie, a nie na kobiecie [jest napisane (Rdz 1:27): „Bądźcie płodni i rozmnażajcie się… i pokonajcie je” („vekivshuhah”). Jest napisane wadliwie, bez vav po goleni (co sugeruje, że adresowana jest tylko jedna i że micwa prokreacji spada na mężczyznę, „władcę” kobiety.)] R. Yochanan ur. B'roka powiedział: O obojgu (mężczyźnie i kobiecie) jest napisane (tamże. 28): „I Bg pobłogosławił ich, a Bg powiedział im: 'Bądźcie płodni i rozmnażajcie się'.” [Halacha nie jest zgodna z nim.]
Jerusalem Talmud Megillah
“And the Ninth of Av.” 132This paragraph also is in Ta`aniot 4:9, Notes 370–377. Rebbi Jeremiah in the name of Rebbi Ḥiyya, it should have been logical that one should fast on the Tenth, since on it it was burned. Why on the Ninth? Because the calamity started on it. So it was stated, on the Seventh they entered, on the Eighth they were misbehaving in it, on the Ninth they started the fire, and on the Tenth it was burned. Rebbi Joshua ben Levi fasted Ninth and Tenth. Rebbi Levi fasted on the Ninth and the night of the Tenth. Rebbi Abba bar Zavda in the name of Rebbi Ḥanina: Rebbi wanted to uproot the Ninth of Av but they did not let him. Rebbi Eleazar said to him, I was with you but it was not said so, but Rebbi wanted to uproot the Ninth of Av which fell on a Sabbath but they did not let him. He said, because it was pushed aside, let it be pushed aside. They said to him, let it be pushed to the next day. In a similar case, that which we stated there: “Rebbi Joḥanan ben Beroqa said, for both of them it says, God blessed them and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply133Gen. 1:28., etc.” Rebbi Eleazar in the Name of Rebbi Ḥanina: Practice follows Rebbi Joḥanan ben Beroqa. Rebbi Abba bar Zavda said to him, I was with you and it was only said, if she asks to be married the law is on her side. He said about them, two are better than one134Eccl. 4:9..
MISHNAH: A man should not rest from being fruitful and multiply unless he has children. The House of Shammai say two males, but the House of Hillel say a male and a female, as it is said “male and female He created them110Gen. 1:27..” If he married a wife and she stayed with him for ten years and had no child he is not permitted to rest. If he divorced her111He also might take a second wife., she is permitted to marry another and the second [husband] is permitted to stay with her for ten years, and if she had a miscarriage she counts from the moment of the miscarriage. The man is commanded to be fruitful and multiply but not the woman. Rebbi Joḥanan ben Beroqa said, for both of them it says “God blessed them and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply,112Gen. 1:28.” etc.
370This paragraph also appears in Megillah1:6 (מ). Rebbi Jeremiah in the name of Rebbi Ḥiyya, it should have been logical that one should fast on the Tenth, since on it our God’s Temple was burned. Why on the Ninth? Because the calamity started on it3712K. 25:8.. So it was stated, on the Seventh they entered, on the Eighth they were misbehaving in it, on the Ninth they started the fire, and on the Tenth it was burned372Babli 29a, Tosephta 3:10.. Rebbi Joshua ben Levi fasted Ninth and Tenth. Rebbi Abun fasted Ninth and Tenth. Rebbi Levi fasted on the Ninth and the night of the Tenth. Rebbi Abba bar Zavda in the name of Rebbi Ḥanina: Rebbi wanted to uproot the Ninth of Av but they did not let him373Babli Megillah 5b.. Rebbi Eleazar said to him, I was with you but it was not said so, but Rebbi wanted to uproot the Ninth of Av which fell on a Sabbath but they did not let him. He said, because it was pushed aside, let it be pushed aside. They said to him, let it be pushed to the next day. In a similar case, that which we stated there374Mishnah Yebamot 6:6.: “Rebbi Joḥanan ben Beroqa said, for both of them it says, God blessed them and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply375Gen. 1:28., etc.” Rebbi Eleazar in the Name of Rebbi Ḥanina: Practice follows Rebbi Joḥanan ben Beroqa. Rebbi Abba bar Zavda said to him, I was with you and it was only said, if she asks to be married the law is on her side376If a woman is married childless for ten years she may ask the court to force her husband to give her a divorce with full payment of her ketubah. In her application to the court she must state that her request is in order to be able to marry another man (who implicitly is supposed to be more fertile than the first.) In the Babli Yebamot 65b she is required to state explicitly that she wants to marry another man in order to have children who will be able to care for her in her old age.. He said about them, two are better than one377Eccl. 4:9..