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The Gemara in Eruvin 63a-63b brings different opinions as to which sin caused Yehoshua to not have children. The Gemara in Berachos 5b says that children dying is not yisurin shel ahava (i.e. it’s a punishment). The Gemara asks that R’ Yochanan’s childredn died. Rashi explains that a tzadik like R’ Yochanan obviously wasn’t getting punished for a sin so it must have been Yisurin shel ahava. The Gemara then concludes that having children die is yisurin shel ahava, but not having children at all is not yisurin shel ahava (i.e. it’s a punishment. Tosafos asks a kashya on Rashi’s pshat in the previous step that we find many tzadikim who didn’t have children which according to Rashi’s logic should prove that it was yisurin shel ahava because obviously tzadikim didn’t commit a sin worthy of this punishment. The Bach inserts into Tosafos that we find that Yehoshua did not have children. But that would have nothing to do with Tosafos’s question because we already know that Yehoshua’s lack of children was indeed a punishment for a specific sin and not yisurin shel ahava!
Doesn’t the Gemara say he had daughters?
I really appreciate all the lamdus and erudition of some of the posters here including you PAA but alas i am not that lamdish or erudite can you translate yisurin shel ahava for me thank you.
When we get to Nisson 26th on Yehoshua’s Johrzeit, since there are no sons [be it daughters or no children] who is taking care of Kaddish recital?
147- if there are daughters, you have two choices: grandchildren or -if you follow many acharonim- the daughters themselves can say kaddish.
There are those who mattir girls saying Kaddish in a tzniusdig manner, quietly. Or one who already has had to say kaddish on his own parents’ yartzeits can voluntarily say kaddish for others, as well.
oomis:there are plenty of sources for women to say kaddish and not only quietly.
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