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Simhat HaBayit U-Virkhato Rabbi Eliezer Melamed sukkot In times of distressSimat Ha bayit is devoted primarily to two mitzvot: ona, the conjugal rights and duties implied by a marital relationship; and pirya ve rivya, procreation, the duty to have children. The first part of the book is devoted to the commandment of ona. From the outset, Rav Eliezer Melamed clarifies that this mitzva is entirely independent of the mitzva of procreation, that the importance of the marital relationship persists regardless of how many children