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This teaches that the Shekhina does not rest upon less than two thousands and 12-thousands of the Jewish people, as the terms thousands and 10-thousands are both in the plural. Consequently, if there were two thousands and 12-thousands of the Jewish people, less one, and this man did not engage in
Abba Ḥanan said in the name of R' Eliezer: A man who does not engage in procreation is liable to death, as it is stated with regard to the sons of Aaron: “And Nadav and Avihu died…and they had no children” (Numbers 3:4). This indicates that if they would have had children they would not have died.
Mishnah: If a man married a woman and stayed with her for 10 years and she did not give birth, he is no longer permitted to neglect the mitzva to be fruitful and multiply. Consequently, he must either divorce her and marry someone else, or take another wife while still married to her. If he divorce
Talmud: A baraita states: If a man married a woman and stayed with her for 10 years and she did not give birth, he should divorce her and pay her marriage contract, because perhaps he did not merit to be built, i.e., to have children, from her. It is not certain that their failure to have child
Although there is no explicit proof for the matter that one must take another wife if he has not had children after 10 years of marriage, there is an allusion to the matter, as the verse states: “And Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar…after Abram had dwelled 10 years in the land of Canaan, and gave h