{"id":98336,"date":"2022-11-20T00:38:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T22:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98336"},"modified":"2022-11-20T00:38:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T22:38:40","slug":"children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/children\/","title":{"rendered":"Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u201cG-d blessed them and He said to them: Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea, the bird of the heaven, and every creature that moves on the earth\u201d <\/em><\/strong>(<em>Bereishit <\/em>1:28)<\/p>\n<p><em>Radak<\/em> explains that \u201cBe fruitful\u201d refers to giving birth, and \u201cmultiply\u201d refers to raising children. Although these words were meant as a blessing, as is understood regarding the fish, our Sages say that regarding people, it is a mitzvah, as well (<em>Yevamot<\/em> 65).<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cG-d blessed Noach and his sons, and He said to them: Be fruitful and multiply and fill the land\u201d<\/em><\/strong> (ibid. 9:1)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cYou will blessed more than all other nations; there will be no infertile male or infertile female among you or among your animals\u201d <\/em><\/strong>(<em>Devarim<\/em> 7:14)<\/p>\n<p>The Ohr Hachaim states that this blessing will be fulfilled when there will be no infertile person among Bnei Yisrael.<\/p>\n<p>Rashi (ibid. vs. 22) explains that the word \u05e4\u05e8\u05d5 (be fruitful) comes from the root \u05e4\u05e8\u05d9, meaning, \u201cProduce fruits!\u201d Regarding the word \u05d5\u05e8\u05d1\u05d5 (and multiply), Rashi comments, \u201cIf He had not said anything but \u2018Be fruitful,\u2019 one creature would have begotten one offspring but no more. \u2018And multiply\u2019 allowed for the possibility that one can beget many.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sifri states (<em>Berachah <\/em>358): None of the tribes was blessed with children as was Asher. From where is this derived? Our Sages explain the words (<em>Devarim<\/em> 33:24) \u201cBlessed of sons\u201d to mean that Asher will be blessed by sons. He will have numerous children. This is in line with the verse regarding Yosef (ibid. vs. 13), \u2018Blessed by Hashem is his land \u2013 with the heavenly bounty of dew.\u2019 All the other tribes were blessed either with might or land, whereas Asher alone was blessed with offspring\u201d (<em>Ramban<\/em>, <em>Devarim<\/em> 33).<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Shelah<\/em> (<em>Parashat Vayechi<\/em>) writes how fortunate is the person who merits not having unsatisfactory offspring. For this, the devout one should constantly pray. One leaves nothing after him in this world besides for his upright children. Concerning Yaakov\u2019s blessing of Yosef\u2019s sons, the pasuk states that \u201che blessed Yosef.\u201d Their blessings and virtues are attributed to their father. When Yaakov conferred the blessings on Yosef\u2019s sons, he told Yosef, \u201cBut progeny born to you after them shall be yours.\u201d This means that if he would beget more children, as fitting as these, who go \u201cafter them,\u201d i.e., follow in their footsteps, they \u201cshall be yours,\u201d they would be Yosef\u2019s acquisition forever. How fortunate is the father who leaves behind upstanding, righteous children.<\/p>\n<p>A <em>segulah<\/em> for a woman who has trouble conceiving is to look at the <em>milah<\/em> knife while the blood on it is still fresh (<em>Sefer Hamiddot<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cG-d blessed them and He said to them: Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea, the bird of the heaven, and every creature that moves on the earth\u201d (Bereishit 1:28) Radak explains that \u201cBe fruitful\u201d refers to giving birth, and \u201cmultiply\u201d refers to raising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1067],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}