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Just to clarify:
The answer to the OP’s question is emphatically NO! The OP misunderstood the gemara.
There are those who refrain from having children for financial reasons, and I am not offering an opinion on that issue, which is a personal decision that each family must make, in consultation with their Rav. However, it is important that CR readers realize that that is NOT what is being discussed by the gemara in Taanis 11a.
Yichusdik, please take the time to read my first post, where I explained the correct pshat in the gemara, based on the context, rashi and tosafos, and is the way everyone understands the statements of Raish Lakish and the Tanna Kamma. I am not your “watchman” in any language, but I was concerned when I saw the gemara being misunderstood.
The gemara means you should refrain from the PLEASURE of marital relations as a way of SHARING THE PAIN of the community at large. The beraisa states that the mitzva of having children overrides this concern.
It is clear from Rashi, as well as the context of the gemara, that the OP misunderstood this gemara. (It is also clear from tosafos, who limits this restriction to middas chassidus, that this is not a practical concern of having too many mouths to feed.)
I have NEVER heard this gemara construed to have anything to do with too many mouths to feed.
I never post on this site, but I am afraid the gemara is being misunderstood.
Google it now; this thread comes up first!
mod 80, what do you have against popa? why is it ok for a moderator to post nasty things about someone? or, why is it ok for someone who posts nasty things to be a moderator?
go popa!
(popa happens to have the some of the best perspectives in the coffee room.)