[Avodah] childbirth as a time of sakana
Joseph C. Kaplan
jkaplan at tenzerlunin.com
Mon Sep 22 14:42:43 PDT 2008
RDE wrote in response to my post:
You have made one very serious error in the reading of my post. I posted
the translation of the view of Rav Moshe Feinstein - not my own. If you
think that i have mistranslated please show me where."
I apologize; I missed that it was a translation of the Igrot Moshe. I
shjould have been more careful. But, to be quite frank, I don't understand
R. Moshe. So, I repeat my question, with, of course, the deference that is
due R. Moshe:
Is he saying that ALL women
throughout the generations who died in childbirth (long before the was
any inducing labor) -- our pious great-grandmothers and their
great-grandmothers etc. etc.) -- died because they were being punished
for one of the "three sins for which women die during childbirth"?
And is he saying that if, God forbid, a woman dies in childbirth today
(as still happens although, thank God, it is much rarer today than it
was in previous times), that we can know that she violated one of
those three sins? If that is what he is saying, does anyone else have
any problem with this analysis?
Joseph Kaplan
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