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C hapter 1 - Preparing for Children: Life Questions

A: Background

  1. Introduction
  2. To Have or Not to Have - The Question of Children.
  3. Be Fruitful - The First Commandment
  4. Problems of Parenthood - Barrenness and Difficult Children in the Torah Model
  5. Strengthening the Argument: Survival Issues
  6. What of Individual Choice? The Question of Personal Autonomy
  7. Discomfort with the Jewish Family Model
  8. The Clash with Tradition
  9. A Minyan of Kids? The Question of Family Size
  10. Reinforcing the Family Model - The Shoah and the Jewish State
  11. Pro-Active Limits? On Birth Control and Abortion
  12. Thank G-d I'm a Man? The Question of Gender Preference
  13. Critiquing the Traditional Position
  14. Filling a Gap: Part One. Issues of Infertility
  15. Filling the Gap: Part Two. Adoption


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B: Text Section

  1. The Barrenness of Sarah
  2. The First Commandment
  3. The Importance of Bearing Children
    The Importance of Bearing Children: Don't Preach, Do!
  4. Childbearing - A Command for all Times?
  5. Regrets About Birth: The Curse of Jeremiah
  6. The Question of Gender: A Disagreement
  7. The Question of Gender: The First Creation Story's Version
  8. On Those Without Children
  9. The Importance of Procreation: For This the World Exists
  10. G-D's Presence: Among the Children
  11. The Disgrace of the Barren Woman
  12. The Disgrace of the Barren Woman: Rachel as Test Case
  13. Yearning for Children: The Story of Hannah


C: Suggestions for Educational Activities

  1. The Jewish Family Stereotype
  2. Hannah's Heartbreak
  3. Responding to Rachel (Bluwstein)
  4. Apocalypse Then
  5. Children as a Response to the Shoah
  6. Birth Pangs and Birth Pressures
  7. Making Men and Women


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D: Bibliography

 
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