Chasidut for Yevamot 127:4
<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> ת"ר נשא אשה ושהה עמה עשר שנים ולא ילדה יוציא ויתן כתובה שמא לא זכה להבנות ממנה
since it is possible that it was he who was unworthy to have children from her.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' She, therefore, must not be deprived of her kethubah, ');"><sup>8</sup></span> Although there is no definite proof for this statement<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As to the period of ten years. ');"><sup>9</sup></span> there is nevertheless a [Scriptural] allusion to it: After Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. XVI, 3, with reference to Abram's marriage to Hagar. ');"><sup>10</sup></span>
Kedushat Levi
Genesis 25,21. “Yitzchok implored Hashem on behalf of his wife;” it is known that the relationship between the masculine and the feminine parts in a marriage is based on the masculine part initiating and the feminine part responding. This relationship is demonstrated clearly as one of total contrast when both partners in the marriage are completely sterile, in the sense that neither is able to contribute his or her part to conception. When the roles of the male and the female appear to be reversed, i.e. the female appearing to initiate and the male appearing to respond, the usual relationship is totally askew. The latter situation was the case here, and this is expressed by the Torah writing the word לנוכח אשתו, an expression indicating היפוך, a totally reversed situation. This is the reason why the Torah writes of G’d: ויעתר לו, “G’d was entreated on his account.” The word עתר indicates a “reversal,” as we know from Sukkah 14, where the Talmud applies it to a shovel or pitchfork, which is used to turn over the grain.
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