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Twin Sisters, Married to Twin Brothers, Give Birth 20 Minutes Apart

In what is being reported as a “first in the world”, two Orthodox-Jewish twin sisters in Israel, who are married to twin brothers, gave birth to girls 20 minutes apart.

From The Times of Israel:

According to multiple accounts, identical twins sometimes share psychic bonds that allow them to share feelings even when they are not together. Whether or not that’s the case, it’s pretty safe to assume that for a few hours in the Israeli coastal town of Netanya on Sunday, two sets of identical twins were experiencing a lot of the same emotions.

The four, identical brothers married to identical sisters, gave birth to baby girls 20 minutes apart at the city’s Laniado Hospital.

While the newborn cousins aren’t twins, they share quite a bit with their mothers, who were also born twenty minutes apart.

Brothers Niv and Ran Cohen, who assumed a religious lifestyle after joining the Hasidic Breslov sect two years ago, told the news website Walla that their wives’ pregnancies were not coordinated.

The Cohens were mentored by the recently deceased Rabbi Eliezer Shlomo Schick, who introduced the brothers to their wives.

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10 Comments

  • Milhouse

    I suppose notbeing Ashkenazim they don’t need to worry at all about Tzavo’as R Yehuda Hachosid.

    (Tzavo’as R Yehuda Hachosid is a very strange document, with a lot of warnings about things one shouldn’t do. Some of them we take seriously, and some we ignore, but there are two about brothers — that two brothers should not live in the same city, and that they should not marry sisters — and we are OK with violating one or the other, but not both. So when R Levik ztz”l and his brother married the two Yanovsky sisters, the Rebbe N”E told them to live in separate cities, so they’d only be breaking one of these warnings.)

    • Derech Eretz!

      Whatever the halachic status of Tzavo’as R Yehuda Hachosid or the brothers knowledge of the earning, frum yidden can do better than to to call a document written by a tzaddik ‘strange’. Some other loshon can surely be managed, especially since we do follow some of his instructions. The fact that yidden have not taken on all of the gezeros doesn’t qualify us to denigrate the writings of a tzaddaik.

    • Milhouse

      Have you read the Tzavo’oh? I dare you to read it all the way through and not call it strange.

  • Zalmy Schapiro

    Mazel Tov you should go from strength to strength happiness and successful Simchas and Nachas till 120 years

    • Milhouse

      What do you not understand? R Yehuda Hachasid wrote that two brothers should not live in the same city, and that they should not marry sisters. We are OK with violating one or the other of these prohibitions, but not both. If brothers marry sisters, one of them should move to another city.