Mendel Kalmenson
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“Furthermore, the Zohar167 teaches: “When is a person called ‘one’? . . . When a person is in the union of intimacy…. When male and female join, they become one. They are one in body and one in soul; they are one person. And G-d dwells in their oneness.”
― People of the Word: Fifty Words That Shaped Jewish Thinking
― People of the Word: Fifty Words That Shaped Jewish Thinking
“The fact that such “jesting” is part of the Biblical description of the act of intercourse indicates that Judaism does not treat intimacy as a cold, physiological act.”
― People of the Word: Fifty Words That Shaped Jewish Thinking
― People of the Word: Fifty Words That Shaped Jewish Thinking
“Based on the Kabbalistic teaching209 that our forefather Abraham also serves as a metaphor for the soul and Sarah for the body, a striking textual allusion to the spiritual supremacy and wisdom of the body over the soul emerges from G-d’s words to Abraham210 (the soul): Whatever Sarah [the body] tells you, hearken to her voice.”
― People of the Word: Fifty Words That Shaped Jewish Thinking
― People of the Word: Fifty Words That Shaped Jewish Thinking
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