How Can Men Be Commanded to Have Kids If Women Aren't?

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

Hi, this is David Wolpe with our question and answer series. Orakon writes, "If a woman is not obligated to have children because you can't obligate someone to put herself in Sakana, then a man can be obligated to put someone else in Sakana?" So, anybody has the right to put themselves into a Sakana. You can't obligate someone to go into a Sakana, but anyone can choose to go into a Sakana. So, therefore, there are people who go to work in dangerous professions. There are people who go to work in dangerous places. There are people who go out to war, which is dangerous. You're allowed to put yourself in a dangerous situation, but you can't obligate somebody. Therefore, if a woman does not want to have children because it's dangerous, no problem.

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1. 0:00Hi, this is David Wolpe with our question and answer series. Orakon writes, "If a woman…
2. 0:31a Sakana. So, therefore, there are people who go to work in dangerous professions. There are…
3. 1:02There are men out there who can't have children. Just You can go to There are…
4. 1:34situation, why? Because she wants to. Cuz Chana was davening and davening to become pregnant and…
5. 2:05So, I can't obligate a woman to, but if a nice woman wants to help me…
6. 2:35can risk that, I can risk getting pregnant. This is David Wolpe with our question and…

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