Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 13 views

    OF 17 r18 CS2ME Draft 8 Balanced25 25

    Uploaded by

    Mark Kaplan
    This document discusses different views on sexuality and marriage from a Jewish perspective. It notes that some see sexuality as vulgar and exploitative outside of marriage. However, the document expresses a positive view of basic sexual experience within marriage. It references a formulation by Shelah that sees marital sex as holy when enacted with holiness and purity, likening it to the relationship of Adam and Eve. The document also references a section from Rav Kook that sees sexual inclination as pouring toward the future and bringing a time when the world to come will be present in this world.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    OF 17 r18 CS2ME Draft 8 Balanced25 25

    Uploaded by

    Mark Kaplan
    13 views1 page
    This document discusses different views on sexuality and marriage from a Jewish perspective. It notes that some see sexuality as vulgar and exploitative outside of marriage. However, the document expresses a positive view of basic sexual experience within marriage. It references a formulation by Shelah that sees marital sex as holy when enacted with holiness and purity, likening it to the relationship of Adam and Eve. The document also references a section from Rav Kook that sees sexual inclination as pouring toward the future and bringing a time when the world to come will be present in this world.

    Original Description:

    sdfa

    Original Title

    fdasdfas

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    This document discusses different views on sexuality and marriage from a Jewish perspective. It notes that some see sexuality as vulgar and exploitative outside of marriage. However, the document expresses a positive view of basic sexual experience within marriage. It references a formulation by Shelah that sees marital sex as holy when enacted with holiness and purity, likening it to the relationship of Adam and Eve. The document also references a section from Rav Kook that sees sexual inclination as pouring toward the future and bringing a time when the world to come will be present in this world.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    13 views1 page

    OF 17 r18 CS2ME Draft 8 Balanced25 25

    Uploaded by

    Mark Kaplan
    This document discusses different views on sexuality and marriage from a Jewish perspective. It notes that some see sexuality as vulgar and exploitative outside of marriage. However, the document expresses a positive view of basic sexual experience within marriage. It references a formulation by Shelah that sees marital sex as holy when enacted with holiness and purity, likening it to the relationship of Adam and Eve. The document also references a section from Rav Kook that sees sexual inclination as pouring toward the future and bringing a time when the world to come will be present in this world.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 1

    Of Marriage: Relationship and Relations 25

    sexuality as transient, vulgar, and possibly exploitative, devoid of


    interpersonal commitment or social and legal sanction. Moreover,
    even with reference to the context of marriage, we recoil from the
    supposed transmutation of the erotic into a quasi-mystical experi-
    ence, bordering on the transcendental, encountered in some quar-
    ters. Conceptually and historically, such associations are idolatrous
    rather than Jewish. With regard to the basic phenomenon of sexual
    experience, however, our instincts and our attitude are clearly posi-
    tive. We have no qualms.
    Relatively few are familiar or, perhaps even comfortable with
    the substance or rhetoric of Shelahs formulation:

    With respect to copulation, when enacted with holiness


    and purity, is most holy, bestirring [matters] above; a
    person sanctifies himself in the nether [world], and he is
    sanctified greatly from the upper, and he fulfills [the com-
    mandment], You shall be holy, for I am holy, Hashem
    your God. For every copulation resembles that of Adam
    and Eve, performed in His form and image.55

    But as to the fundamental attitude, we are very much attuned.


    This attitude is clearly manifest in a section from Rav Kooks
    Orot ha-Kodesh, aptly titled Ha-Netiya ha-Minit le-Atid (The Fu-
    ture of Sexual Inclination):

    The sexual inclination goes and pours forth toward the


    future, toward the perfect existence; it will bring a time
    when the existence of the world to come will be present in
    this world. For the future existence is filled with splendor
    and pleasantness. Great, therefore, is this intense desire,
    this powerful longing of the eternal inclination; and the
    tendentious Holiness settles its light only upon [this
    desire]. And the pure soul steers this desire towards its
    destination.56

    The passage presumably reflects a general tendency to affirmative

    You might also like