Rabbi Eli'ézer casually saying Yitzḥaq isn't a Patriarch????????? #DafYomi #RoshHaShana10
premature baby, death implication (Talmud)
also uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh if he was conceived at Rosh haShanah and born at Pesaḥ, wouldn't that make him born at like, six and a half months??? isn't that?? super premature???? like at the point that survival rates are v e r y dicey???
re: premature baby, death implication (Talmud)
@glitternoodle pretty sure that's very dicey even today, I imagine at the time what you're reading was probably written (though i'm making assumptions here that may be wrong?) that would have been basically unheard of for someone to survive
-F
re: premature baby, death implication (Talmud)
@Felthry this baby would have been born ca 3300 years ago, and this text was written ca 1500 years ago, tho both of those numbers are Quite fuzzy
(if it was a leap year, i guess technically the kid would have been born at 7.5 months, which feels Less Fraught, but still not, like, ideal???)
re: premature baby, death implication (Talmud)
@glitternoodle yeah i think that time period they just didn't have the medical technology for chances of survival at 6.5 months to be anything more than "a miracle has to happen for this baby to survive"
-F
re: premature baby, death implication (Talmud)
@glitternoodle hah! that's fair enough, yeah
-F
re: premature baby, death implication (Talmud)
@Felthry then again, the baby was born to a 90-year-old woman literally because G-d wanted it and made it happen thru very explicit and heavy-handed Divine intervention, so, you know, i guess we can't *technically* rule miracles out of the equation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯