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Halakhah 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. ');"><sup>11</sup></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. ');"><sup>12</sup></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. ');"><sup>12</sup></span>

Peninei Halakhah, Women's Prayer

The most significant human reciprocal completion is the one between male and female, for with it human beings can reveal the divine image within them and achieve perfection. Not only concerning humanity, but in all of creation, from the sublime realms down to this earth, there is a division into male and female; neither sex can exist and endure independently, without the completion of the other. This fundamental principle is clarified at length in the wisdom of the Kabbala. That is what R. Elazar meant when he said: “Every man without a woman is not a [complete] person, as it is written: ‘Male and female He created them, and He blessed them and called them man’ (Bereishit 5:2)” (Yevamot 63a). Likewise, the Sages teach us: “Every man without a woman is inundated by unhappiness, without blessing, without goodness…without Torah, without fortification” (Yevamot 62b).
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