Overall Task 2 Flashcards
(34 cards)
Unity Companionship
Marriage is highly values and considered Mitzvah to marry and build and home.
Sex is only reserved for marriage
Orthodox Unity Companionship:
Sex is strictly only reserved for marriage
Reform:
They understand that if both partners are comitted to each other sex outside of marriage is allowed
Genesis 2:24
‘a man shall leave his mother and father to be with his wife and the two shall become one flesh’
Niddah
Specifically a women’s menstrual cycle. When a woman menstruates, she does not engage in sexual relations. And after menstruation, a woman will go to a mikvah for a traditional cleanse.
Orthodox
Strict adherence to these teachings
Reform
Not many couples adhere to abstaining during this time. Only a few will mikvah
Talmud Niddah 31b
Why did the Torah command Niddah? So that a woman shall be beloved by her husband as on her wedding day’.
Marriage Steps
K
B
H
R (3a2b)
S
Y
Ketubah signing
Bedeken
Hakafot
Rings
Sheva Brachot
Yichud
The BESHT
CREMP!
Changing Synagogue Services
Role of the Tzadikk
Emphasis on joy
Mysticism in daily life
Power of prayer
Changing synagogue services
More participatory
Spiritually uplifting
Hasidic prayer includes singing, dancing, shucking
Role of the Tzadikk
Hasidic rabbi
Conduit between the divine and the adherent
Guides adherents
Emphasis on joy
cleaving to god
personal spirituality was more important than intellect
Every Jew could develop a personal relationship with God though prayer, devotion, and acts of kindness
personal connection with God was valued over intellect
Mysticism in daily life
Divine providence, God is involved in all aspects of life
Devekut: cleaving to God,
Mundane activities done correctly can be worship to God
‘Everything above
and below is one unity’
From every human
is a light
Power of prayer
Heartfelt prayer over intellectual study - cleaving to God
Simple faith: heartfelt approach to religious life wasmore important than intellect.
There is no room for God
in a man who is full of himself
- Paul of Tarsus: Agape Love (SUSTAINS)
- Description: Paul teaches that the highest form of love in a Christian setting (1 Corinthians 12:13)
Example: Mother Teresa in Missionaries of Charities
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love” (1 Corinthians 12:13).
‘And now these three remain:
Faith hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 12:13).
- POT: Agape Love (ADAPTS)
- Desmond Tutu’s work as an Anglican bishop in South Africa. Emphasized love, forgiveness, and reconciliation during and after apartheid in South Africa.
(1 Corinthians 13:7)
Love never gives up,
never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance’ (1 Corinthians 13:7).
- POT: Sexual Teachings (SUSTAINS)
Description:
- Taught mutual responsibilities between spouses through respect
1 Corinthians 6:18-19.
Catholic Engaged Encounter, help married couples assume the roles of marriage via the teachings of Paul
Flee from sexual immorality.
All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 1 Corinthians 6:18-19.