For Friday Night

The experience of Galut (exile) is compared to a state of pregnancy

Your Judaism, the fact of your being a Jew in the world today and having all those laws and traditions in your background--is this something you chose?

A miracle can be defined as something which directly reveals the power of the Divine. In this sense, reproduction has the quality of a miracle, in particular the birth of a child who is destined to reveal G‑dliness in the world.