Large Families

We had EDITED and that was like a million back then.

EDITED Siblings. EDITED boys EDITED girls

EDITED siblings, EDITED brothers, EDITED sisters. I don’t know how my mother did it.

I have EDITED siblings, Boruch Hashem.

My father was one of EDITED siblings and his parents literally did not have food to eat, my father grew up with a level of poverty that his sister once told me “you cannot understand”.

His father was the youngest of a family that had a number of children that was closer to twenty then 10 and that was in Europe.

Unfortunately the mindset that you espouse is one that is a product of “Kochi Voitzem Yudi”.

The facts are that there is an inyan of “Berev al tainach yudecha” one must always endeavor to have children and more children.

As for mosdos going bankrupt.

The Gemaro tells us that schar talmud Torah is not part of the cheshbon, its on Hashem. (Mesechta Beitzah)

Either we trust Chazal or we do not.

Furthermore I personally spoke at length with a prominent Rov who discused these issues on a practical level with Rav Moshe zt’l and Rav Yackov zt”l. He told me very clearly that he had never ever heard of a heter for not having children becuase of financial issues.

He told me he guesses he is “old school” but the generations after the War understood that we have to do ours and Hashem will do his. He related to me that a prominent RY (who escaped the full brunt of the war in Shanghai) who was extremley poor and yet had a number of children in succession reacted to the questions of certain more modern people by exclaimg in shiur once “We live in a crazy world, each child is a world unto itself”. (This Rov had been in the shiur at the time)

The position that you are espousing is hopefully unpopular as it is in direct opposition to the “Ruach HaTorah”

Dear Mod with a sense of humor,

ROTFL

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What in the EDITED world happened to this tread??!!

We don’t count Jews.

How does one’s sibling get EDITED ?

557: We don’t count Jews.

I don’t think stating how many children are in one’s family is included in that Issur. And I don’t think the Mods EDITED all the numbers because of that. I think s/he was/is having fun.

moski: wish I could EDIT some of mine!! 🙂

menucha12: WOW! Must be crazy there!!!

I’m an EDITED child, but my parents weren’t frum.

557: We don’t count Jews.

I don’t think stating how many children are in one’s family is included in that Issur. And I don’t think the Mods EDITED all the numbers because of that. I think s/he was/is having fun.

You obviously don’t appreciate dry humor.

I don’t EDITED what’s going on here. I have been AWOL for just about one week, the whole EDITED here is on wheels. EDITED EDITED EDITED EDITED. (= What’s going on here?)

Speaking of large families, and the mother and grandmother of moderately large families, I have seen large families where the parents just get burnt out of parenting and let their younger children grow like weeds. If you can’t raise them, don’t have them

OOM – and since I’m the mom I only get it when the kids aren’t using it.

There are 2.58 children in my family. We also have 1.3 automobiles – and since I’m the .58, I get the .3 car all to myself. ^_^

At least credit Norton Juster when you use his material.

The Wolf

They make up errands to run for me. And they always come back holding slurpees.

By the old arie crown or telz? We do the touhy one where they only use the kosher flavors. My kids have VIP status there.

Bryn Mawr? Are you talking about Chicago or Pennsylvania?

That’s interesting…I wonder if it has anything to do with the college in Pennsylvania.

I had not enough siblings, though supremely happy with the ones I have, B”EH tzu longer yohren. My mother would have wanted several more, though she already had a very nice-sized family, had she been able to have more children. I think one of the reasons I had one more child than she, was because Hashem knew how very much she would have wanted one more. In any case, it is not the number of children we have, but the kochos we put into them, that matters.