Hallo Rav (Mordechai) Kornfeld.
How are you?
Everything ok?
I have alittle question: Is the maskono of the gemara sanhedrien on daf 59b indeed that a ben noach is NOT metsuwe on pru urevu? Or are there different views in teh taalmud or poskim? I remember something in Jebamot on this but i can't remember where exactly...
Kol tuv and thanks.
leo (Yehudah) Mock
Amsterdam
The Gemara you are referring to is Yevamos 62a. Rebbi Yochanan says that one who had children as a Nochri and then became a Ger is Patur from Peru u'Revu. The Gemara says the reasoning for this is that he already fulfilled Peru u'Revu (when he was a Nochri). However, Tosfos asks from the Gemara in Sanhedrin, and explains that there is actually no Chiyuv of Peru u'Revu for a Nochri.
D. Zupnik
See Encyclopedia Talmudis Vol. 3 p. 358, who cites the opinion of the She'iltos. Note also the distinction between Peru u'Revu vs. Lasheves Yetzarah; see Tosfos Gitin 41b DH Lo Sohu (who disagrees with Tosfos Chagigah 2b DH Lo Sohu). This could also be a Nafka Mina with regard to women.)
Kol Tuv,
Yitzchok Zirkind