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Sanctified Sex - The Two-Thousand-Year Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy (Paperback)
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Sanctified Sex - The Two-Thousand-Year Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy (Paperback)
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Sanctified Sex draws on two thousand years of rabbinic debates
addressing competing aspirations for loving intimacy, passionate
sexual union, and sanctity in marriage. What can Judaism contribute
to our struggles to nurture love relationships? What halakhic
precedents are relevant, and how are rulings changing? The rabbis,
of course, seldom agree. Underlying their arguments are perennial
debates: What kind of marital sex qualifies as ideal-sacred
self-control of sexual desire or the holiness found in emotional
and erotic intimacy? Is intercourse degrading in its physicality or
the highest act of spiritual/mystical union? And should women or
men (or both) wield ultimate say about what transpires in bed? Noam
Sachs Zion guides us chronologically and steadily through fraught
terrain: seminal biblical texts and their Talmudic interpretations;
Talmud tales of three unusual rabbis and their marital bedrooms;
medieval codifiers and mystical commentators; ultra-Orthodox rabbis
clashing with one another over radically divergent ideals; and,
finally, contemporary rabbis of varied denominations wrestling with
modern transformations in erotic lifestyles and values. Invited
into these sanctified and often sexually explicit discussions with
our ancestors and contemporaries, we encounter innovative Jewish
teachings on marital intimacy, ardent lovemaking techniques, and
the art of couple communication vital for matrimonial success.
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