Among gedolim who lost their rebbetzin when they were at an older age, many have remarried to a second, younger, rebbetzin capable of child bearing. Not too long ago it wasn’t even too uncommon for older men among the hamon hoam who lost their wife to do the same, to fulfill the mitzvah of Pru U’rvu. I know many folks whose zeida (or elter-zeida) lost their wife in their 60s or so and remarried to their bubbe when she was in her 20s or 30s and had more children.
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