Rosh Hashanah: Can We Really Multiply Like Fish?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

fish produce take the herring that you eat on shabbos a herring lays about 20 000 eggs at one time and then the progeny just go and take care of themselves and then the parents go do it again in the lifetime of a herring a herring produces millions of offspring so yes while it may be a nice fila shenifera venire back qadogam i'm not sure whether the wife and the family will be uh how thrilled she will be with this bracha but what do we mean shanifer of a nearby but what do we mean shanifer of a nearby qadogam how are we supposed to replicate and reproduce like fish it seems to be scientifically impossible so two simple thoughts our main product in this world are not our physical children our main product our main payrolls are our mastermind so you'll ask how in the world are we supposed to produce so many masten toivim like fish if a fish produces millions of progeny if a fish produces millions of progeny in their life lifetime can we really amass that type of in our lifetime and the answer is absolutely perhaps in days gone by this was something we can never comprehend but today with technology whatever a person does is spread throughout the world very quickly today somebody has a good thought if somebody has an idea of doing a mitzvah it could be shared it could be spread all over the world in really a manner of seconds

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