Author: David Wilber

Is marital intimacy on the Sabbath a violation of the commandment to keep the seventh day holy? That depends on who you ask.

The Rabbis say no. Mishnah Ketubot 5:6 states that an unemployed man must have marital relations with his wife “every day,” including on the Sabbath. Moreover, Babylonian Talmud Ketubot 62b:6 states that the Sabbath is actually “the ideal time for Torah scholars to fulfill their conjugal obligations.” Rather than prohibiting sexual intimacy on the Sabbat...