Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Musar for Yevamot 156:1

והא אמר רב כהנא לא שנו אלא רובו אבל כולו חוצץ שאני עובר דהיינו רביתיה

surely [it may be retorted] R. Kahana stated: This applies only in respect of its greater part, but when the whole of it is effected a legal interposition is constituted!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even if the person does not mind the interposition. In the case of the embryo, surely, all its body remains untouched by the water. Why, then, should the child be exempt from the immersion! ');"><sup>1</sup></span> — The case of the embryo is different since its position<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In utero, during pregnancy. ');"><sup>2</sup></span> is that of its natural growth.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The mother's body is inseparable from it and cannot, therefore, be regarded as an interposition. ');"><sup>3</sup></span>

Orchot Tzadikim

And thus we find that when there was a famine for three years in the time of David, he sought to find the sin that had caused the famine and finally discovered that because of his own conduct the famine had come (Yebamoth 78b). Therefore, in every bad happening a man should worry lest it occurred because of him.
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