A01=Noam Sachs Zion
Author_Noam Sachs Zion
Bible Studies
Biblical Studies
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Conservative Movement
Divine Marriage
Emotional Intimacy
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Erotic Intimacy
Family
Hasidic Rebbes
Hasidism
Havurah Movement
Interpersonal Love
Jewish History
Jewish Renewal Movement
Jewish Studies
Judaism
Litvak Opponents
Love
Lovemaking Technique
Maimonides
Marital Duties
Marriage
Marriage Contract
Modern Orthodox Movement
Mystical Commentator
Reconstructionist Movement
Reform Movement
Religion
Religious History
Religious Movement
Religious Studies
Self Control
Sexual Asceticism
Sexual Desire
Sexual Union
Spiritual Union
Talmud
Talmudic Interpretation
Ultra- Orthodox
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- ISBN 9780827614666
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2021
- Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: 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.
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.
Noam Sachs Zion has been a senior research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem since 1978 and taught on the faculty of the Rabbinic Enrichment Center. His popular publications include the best seller A Different Night: The Family Participation Haggadah.
