{"id":1509,"date":"2014-12-06T02:41:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T02:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2015-01-19T02:42:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T02:42:17","slug":"%d7%a9%d7%91%d7%aa-date-14-kislev-5774-12614-yevamos63-tani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=1509","title":{"rendered":"\u05e9\u05d1\u05ea Date: 14 Kislev, 5774 (12\/6\/14) \u2013 Yevamos#63 {Tani}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">TORAH MARRIAGE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[63b bottom] <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ben Azzai<\/span>: One who abstains from procreation is like one who spills blood and diminishes the Divine Image [however, Ben Azzai himself never married because he said that his soul embraces the Torah (he is &#8220;married to the Torah&#8221;) while others will continue the world\u2019s continuation].<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Prac-T-cal Tidbits<\/strong><\/span>: Many frum (religious) people [even those married] may look for excuses why not to have children. &#8220;I\u2019m not ready&#8230; we can\u2019t afford it&#8230; its too hard&#8230; I won\u2019t be good&#8230;&#8221; There is severe rebuke and punishment for those who chose not to have children (and only someone like a Ben Azzai, who was an extreme example of Holiness, could dare risk this violation of a commandment). Even the poorest couples have progeny and each child born is a pure Mitzvah. We must never get sucked into modern culture and its ideals and remember to have as many children as Hashem blesses us with. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORAH MARRIAGE [63b bottom] Ben Azzai: One who abstains from procreation is like one who spills blood and diminishes the Divine Image [however, Ben Azzai himself never married because he said that his soul embraces the Torah (he is &#8220;married to the Torah&#8221;) while others will continue the world\u2019s continuation]. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gemarah-yevamos","category-l4l-by-tani","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}