A: Background Introduction To Have or Not to Have - The Question of Children. Be Fruitful - The First Commandment Problems of Parenthood - Barrenness and Difficult Children in the Torah Model Strengthening the Argument: Survival Issues What of Individual Choice? The Question of Personal Autonomy Discomfort with the Jewish Family Model The Clash with Tradition A Minyan of Kids? The Question of Family Size Reinforcing the Family Model - The Shoah and the Jewish State Pro-Active Limits? On Birth Control and Abortion Thank G-d I'm a Man? The Question of Gender Preference Critiquing the Traditional Position Filling a Gap: Part One. Issues of Infertility Filling the Gap: Part Two. Adoption Printing version B: Text Section The Barrenness of Sarah The First Commandment The Importance of Bearing Children The Importance of Bearing Children: Don't Preach, Do! Childbearing - A Command for all Times? Regrets About Birth: The Curse of Jeremiah The Question of Gender: A Disagreement The Question of Gender: The First Creation Story's Version On Those Without Children The Importance of Procreation: For This the World Exists G-D's Presence: Among the Children The Disgrace of the Barren Woman The Disgrace of the Barren Woman: Rachel as Test Case Yearning for Children: The Story of Hannah C: Suggestions for Educational Activities The Jewish Family Stereotype Hannah's Heartbreak Responding to Rachel (Bluwstein) Apocalypse Then Children as a Response to the Shoah Birth Pangs and Birth Pressures Making Men and Women Printing version D: Bibliography