re: #98 sagehen

My view is that yes, God did say “go forth and multiply”… but now that there’s 7 million of us, perhaps it’s time to check that off the to-do list.

There was a Jewish woman in seventeenth-century Iraq, Asenath Barazani, who was famous as a scholar. The legend is that she had a son and a daughter, and then prayed to stop menstruating, so she could be free to focus on Torah without raising a large family.

Children are wonderful. Grown-ups doing what they’re meant to do is also wonderful.