Childbirth
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What does the Rabbi think about having children? Isn’t there a moral problem in imposing on a person a reality that is not certain to be perfect, to say the least? It would be great if we could guarantee our children a bright future both in this world and in the hereafter. But unfortunately, there are difficulties in education, both spiritually and materially. So then, isn’t there a moral problem in this?
Isn’t giving birth to someone who will endure even one minute of sorrow better than giving birth to them?
I ask all my questions based on the assumption that by procreation we mean “creating” someone from nothing. (Because it is possible that to the extent that it is just a transfer of a soul that exists in other worlds to our world, then it is possible that it is different).
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Thank you very much, interesting. I did mean morally. If that's how the value is contained, then the baby could not have been created, so you didn't add or subtract anything from it, but you mean in relation to the whole of creation, which has better things in it?
But how was this value created?
I meant by bringing down a soul, which can be thought of as a “reserve” of souls preparing to descend into the world as some talk about, and then they will descend into the world anyway as they also mention, so when you see the sorrow that sometimes exists in other places, maybe it's better for them to descend here with us 🙂
But I'm really not into theories of bringing down souls, I only heard it once in a while from a few women.
I don't understand. What does it mean how the value was created?
I may not have fully understood before, your intention can be read in two ways.
You claim that just as a living person has value even if he is not functioning, so too does the addition of life have positive value.
But the addition of something like value belongs only in relation to the world and not in relation to the person because he did not exist before, so there is nothing to add. If this is the case, the addition of value is essentially a judgmental description that the act is good in relation to the world. But it can also be said that a particular person also has value from his own perspective and not only from the environment, if this value is more in the qualitative essence of the person. And if this is the case, it is appropriate to ask how it was created.
In a similar question, I wrote that I think the added value is for the world and not so much for the individual.
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