Talmud Bavli
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Halakhah for Yevamot 125:2

סי' אש"ה וקרק"ע עז"ר זא"ת שת"י הברכו"ת תגר"י פחת"י: א"ר אלעזר כל אדם שאין לו אשה אינו אדם שנאמר (בראשית ה, ב) זכר ונקבה בראם ויקרא את שמם אדם ואמר רבי אלעזר כל אדם שאין לו קרקע אינו אדם שנא' (תהלים קטו, טז) השמים שמים לה' והארץ נתן לבני אדם

R. Eleazar said: Any man who has no wife is no proper man; for it is said, <i>Male and female created He them and called their name Adam</i>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. V, 2. Adam = man. Only when the male and female were united were they called Adam. ');"><sup>4</sup></span> R. Eleazar further stated: Any man who owns no land is not a proper man; for it is said, <i>The heavens are the heavens of the Lord; but the earth hath he given to the children of men</i>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ps. CXV, 16, emphasis on man and earth. ');"><sup>5</sup></span> R. Eleazar further stated: What is the meaning of the Scriptural text, <i>I will make him a help meet for him</i>?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. II, 18. ');"><sup>6</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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