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From: martillo@csd2.UUCP (Joachim Martillo)
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Subject: Re: throwing candy
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Date: Sun, 22-Sep-85 11:45:00 EDT
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In re marriage Goitein records the following Yemenite Jewish proverb.

    Man enjoys life only twice, when he marries and when he dies.

I am not sure what it is supposed to mean.

As for honeymoons, besides the  halakic problems already  mentioned by
Rosenblatt,  I should point  out  that honeymoons  would  be a strange
practice in   a  polygynous society   (as  normative    Judaism   is).
Honeymoons would be considered mistreatment  of earlier wives and also
there would be problems with mar'at `ayin  because people would wonder
what an earlier wife would be up to while  the husband and the  latest
wife went away for a while.

As for Pauline  attitudes to   Christianity, 1 Corinthians 7  contains
some  rather  negative   attitudes  towards   sexual intercourse.   (I
apologize for the  German   Jewish  law  forbids  keeping or   reading
Christian scriptures,  I am getting  this from an  article which was a
handout in a course  I took at Harvard   some years ago.   The  Luther
translation is supposed to be  much  more reliable  than most  English
translations.)


2. Doch  um der Unkeuschheit  willen  habe ein jeglicher  seine eigene
Frau, und eine jegliche  habe ihren  eigenen Mann. 3.  Der Mann leiste
der Frau die schuldige Pflicht, desgleichen die Fau dem Manne.

Generally, Unkeuschheit (impurity) and schuldige Pflicht (sinful duty)
are not terms which Jews associate with sexual intercourse in a proper
Jewish marriage where the laws of tohorat hamishpahah are observed.

Now this may not be exactly what the original Greek Text  says but the
German Text has influenced most of Protestant thought.