Bava Metzia 84a
When There's a Will, There's Way
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| Woman: | Your children are not really your own. |
| Due to your obesity it is impossible that
you engaged in intercourse with your wives. |
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| Rabbis: | Theirs' (our wives') bellies, are larger than ours. |
| Woman: | All the more so you could not have had intercourse. |
| Rabbis: | For as the man is, so is his strength. |
| i.e., our sexual organs are proportionate to our bellies. | |
| Or another way to answer the crazy roman woman | |
| Rabbis: | Love compresses the flesh. |