Pro-Creation
There is a halacha that if a couple has been married for 10 years and have not had a baby [G-d forbid!!] then they should get divorced so that the man can marry someone else and fulfill his mitzva of procreation [some people are pro-abortion. I am pro-creation].
The question is, that we know that a person is only obligated to spend up to one fifth of his money in order to fulfill a positive mitzva [a negative commandment - known in the parlance as a lo ta'aseh - requires one to spend every last penny!! So if I can save myself from speaking loshon hara by spending all of my money I am obligated to do so.]. Now one's wife is certainly worth more than one fifth of his money [we hope]. So why is a man obligated to lose his wife in order to fulfill the positive commandment of having children. She is worth more than a fifth???
The question is, that we know that a person is only obligated to spend up to one fifth of his money in order to fulfill a positive mitzva [a negative commandment - known in the parlance as a lo ta'aseh - requires one to spend every last penny!! So if I can save myself from speaking loshon hara by spending all of my money I am obligated to do so.]. Now one's wife is certainly worth more than one fifth of his money [we hope]. So why is a man obligated to lose his wife in order to fulfill the positive commandment of having children. She is worth more than a fifth???
rabbi,
isn't the halach that if your wife doesn't have a child for 10 years then you cannot push off your chiyuv by waiting for her any longer and you should marry a second wife (pre-cherem d'rabeinu gershom days) in order to fulfill your obligation? (as Avraham married Hagar)but there is no reason to divorce your first wife?
Posted by
yehudah |
2:16 PM
Rabbeinu Yehuda
See Shulchan Aruch Even Haezer 154/10.
Posted by
Rabbi Ally Ehrman |
8:21 PM
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