The Jewish way in love and marriage /
With the traditions and laws of the Bible as his base, Rabbi Lamm portrays the great effort Judaism has expended in creating and maintaining the institution of marriage. He shows how indispensable it is to society as a whole and to the Jewish community in particular. He summarizes the traditional vi...
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| Format: | Llibre |
| Idioma: | English |
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San Francisco :
Harper & Row,
c1980.
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| Edició: | 1st ed. |
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Taula de continguts:
- pt. 1. Finding a marriage partner. The matchmaker
- Romantic love and the Jewish concept of love
- The sexual component in love and marriage
- pt. 2. Prospective partners : the prohibited and the preferred. Prohibited and void
- Prohibited but valid
- Preferred partners
- pt. 3. The idea of Jewish marriage. The state of marriage today
- Jewish insights into marriage
- The purposes of marriage
- pt. 4. The structure of the marriage covenant. "According to the laws of Moses and Israel" : the Jewish marriage ceremony
- Not "according to the laws of Moses and Israel" : non-Jewish ceremonies
- pt. 5. Celebrating the marriage covenant. Planning the wedding
- The week before the wedding
- The day of the wedding
- The wedding
- After the wedding ceremony
- A note on remarriage and divorce.