Be Fruitful and Multiply (by 3)
Chutzpod!
Chutzpod!
5.0 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The decision to have children is often difficult, but what about the decision to have MORE children? Rabbi Shira and Hanna advise a listener on what they think and Judaism says about having a third kid, and whether they regret having their own (spoiler: they don’t).
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| 1:11.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to chutzpahd, real life lived better, where every week we answer a listener question using Jewish tradition and also just sort of what we understand about the world around us. I am Rabbi Shira Stutman. I'm Hannah Rosen. |
| 1:12.4 | So, Hannah, you are newer to the chutzpah, the chutzpah family. Tell me about how many |
| 1:19.7 | kids do you have? Too many. Really? Do you really believe that you have too many? Because that's |
| 1:24.3 | exactly what we're going to be talking about today. That's funny. That's my automatic response because I feel like two is the regular socially |
| 1:32.5 | acceptable number of children in my social class. And I have that plus one more. So there is a little |
| 1:41.3 | bit of like shyness. Like you have to explain yourself about what's up with that? |
| 1:47.1 | Like what are you trying to do? |
| 1:48.5 | Are you trying to be like a settler? |
| 1:50.3 | Like what is with the extra kid, you know? |
| 1:54.1 | By the way, so listeners, just so you know, both Khada and I have three children. |
| 1:59.0 | And what's so interesting is I too have a response |
| 2:01.1 | when people ask me how many I have. And what I say is, well, I still only want two children, |
| 2:09.0 | but I have three and I no longer know which one I would give up. Oh my God, that's such a weird |
| 2:15.3 | response that like immediately takes them into your family, |
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