Hello, Rav! I’ve heard many times that Sarah didn’t have a uterus, and that’s why it was such a big miracle for her to get pregnant. Yevamot 64a says: “And Sarai was barren, she had no child”. She was barren, she had no child! [Sarah] did not have even the housing for a uterus. But on Bereshit 18:11 it says “the course of women had ceased to be with Sarah” and Rashi comments there: HAD CEASED TO BE - It had discontinued from her. THE COURSE OF WOMEN - The course of menstruation. And Be’er BaSadeh says: “The word חדל can mean “withheld” or “ceased”. Here it means that she used to menstruate but had ceased to do so, not that menstruation had always been withheld from her”. My question is, how could she have ever menstruated if she didn’t have a uterus?

Asked on November 17, 2020