While much Jewish thought, culture, and professional ethics increasingly accommodate a range of gender roles and expressions, sexualities, and family structures, they also remain deeply pronatalist. This overwhelmingly frames reproduction as a core Jewish value and the choice not to bear or raise children as contrary to Jewish values. I argue that Jewish pronatalism masks the true extent to which the whole community must support the care and formation of all its generations. Through a counter-reading of a passage from the Babylonian Talmud in which three sages neglect their wives and children in various ways that allow a careful reader to notice “person-shaped holes”—narrative features whose presence implies various people’s nonparental labor—I argue that multiple people in multiple roles within a community make it possible to sustain its continuity in a robust and all-encompassing way.

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人形孔

虽然许多犹太人的思想、文化和职业道德越来越适应一系列的性别角色和表达、性取向和家庭结构，但他们也仍然深信不疑。这压倒性地将生殖作为核心的犹太价值观以及不生育或抚养孩子的选择与犹太价值观背道而驰。我认为犹太亲生主义掩盖了整个社区必须支持其所有世代的照顾和形成的真实程度。