Throughout Tanakh, we find that biblical heroes have specifically prayed to God for having children (such as Yitzhak and Hannah), and it seems like having children is generally considered a valid, desirable "good thing" by the Torah.[citation not needed] Yet, unless I missed it, there doesn't see...

Do any commentaries discuss why Hashem told Moshe to take a census in parshas Bamidbar? Hashem knew how many people there were and censuses are generally forbidden, so what was the point in the exercise?

Rambam in Hilchot Issurei Biah 22:18 says that there’s nothing more hard for most of the nation to keep than the Arayot commandments. Around that same area, he also quotes a Gemara that says that “most people fall by theft, few people fall in Arayot, and all fall in Lashon Hara.” This Gemara seem...