Ein%20mishpat for Yevamot 124:5

התם דחויי קמדחי להו דרב ששת איעקר מפירקיה דרב הונא

'Marry a wife and beget children', and he answered them, 'My daughters' children are mine'! — There he was merely putting them off, because R. Shesheth became impotent owing to the long discourses of R. Huna.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The discourses being long, R. Shesheth, in his desire not to interrupt them, suppressed his needs and thus impaired his generative organs. V. Bek. 44b. ');">¹¹</span> Said Rabbah to Raba b. Mari: Whence the statement made by the Rabbis that grandchildren are like children? If it be suggested that it is deduced from the Scriptural text, The daughters are my daughters and the children are my children,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. XXXI, 43. ');">¹²</span> would then [it may be objected] the same [meaning be given to the text] And the flocks are my flocks?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. XXXI, 43. ');">¹²</span>

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