Quoting%20commentary for Yevamot 128:7

רב גידל איעקר מפרקיה דרב הונא רבי חלבו איעקר מפרקיה דרב הונא רב ששת איעקר מפרקיה דרב הונא רב אחא בר יעקב אחדתיה סוסכינתא תליוה בארזא דבי רב ונפק מיניה כהוצא ירקא אמר רב אחא בר יעקב שיתין סבי הוינא וכולהו איעקור מפרקיה דרב הונא לבר מאנא דקיימי בנפשאי (קהלת ז, יב) החכמה תחיה בעליה:

— Since she is not commanded to fulfil the duty of propagation she is not so punished.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By barrenness, ');">¹⁸</span> But surely it is not so!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This refers to the implication of the statement, supra, that the husband must take another wife, because it is possible that he was unworthy to have children from the first but may have them from the second. ');">¹⁹</span> For the Rabbis once said to R. Abba b. Zabda, 'Take a wife and beget children', and he answered them, 'Had I been worthy I would have had them from my first wife'! — There he was merely evading the Rabbis; for, in fact, R. Abba b. Zabda became impotent through the long discourses of R. Huna.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra p. 416, n. 11. ');">²⁰</span>

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