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- From: MASH@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL (Michael Shimshoni)
- Subject: Re: Talmud on determining sex
- Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 15:25:47 GMT
- Message-ID: <199212271528.AA21471@das.wang.com>
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- In: <1992Dec25.053417.27287@sarah.albany.edu>
- mark@fenris.albany.edu (Mark Steinberger) asks:
-
- >In article <1992Dec24.195634.978@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com
- >(David Sternlight) writes:
- >>My orthodox Grandfather (O"H) told my father who told me that according
- >>to the Talmud if the woman has an orgasm first the child will be
- >>a boy.
- >
- >How do you explain boy-girl twins? ;-)
-
- Just arguing on the basis of the above mentioned Talmudic Theory, this
- is easy. Boy-girl twins are a case of two ova being fertilized, each
- by its own sperm, and possibly as the result of two cases of
- intercourse. So in one of them the lady had the orgasm first while in
- the other she "came" second (if at all).
-
- I wonder if the above quoted Talmud story is really there, if so how
- the Talmudic sages got this information. Was it also Sinaic wisdom
- given to Moshe, or was it the result of some controlled sages-led
- experiments. I wonder if someone has the reference to this orgasm
- story. BTW what term was used in Hebrew or Aramaic for orgasm?
-
- >--Mark
-
- Michael Shimshoni
-