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style="FONT-FAMILY: Andalus">A: It is forbidden to perform such an act from a
deceased man.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>First of all, a
deceased man is not obligated in the mitzvah to be fruitful and multiply.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A deceased man is not obligated in the
mitzvot at all.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He is free.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Secondly, it is forbidden to cause a
child (or anyone for that matter) sorrow.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The Torah says over and over: an orphan is unfortunate, an orphan is
unfortunate.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But sometimes there is
an orphan and we have mercy on him.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Here, however, we create a child orphaned from his father with our own
hands!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And he is even worse than an
orphan, because an orphan had a father and he died, but here the man died and
only then did he become an orphan.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We must explain to the child that he never had a father.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We understand that the mother is
suffering from loneliness and she would be happy if she had a baby, but we do
not save her from loneliness by causing a child to suffer his entire life.<SPAN
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