Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site csd2.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!csd2!martillo From: martillo@csd2.UUCP (Joachim Martillo) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: throwing candy Message-ID: <3780096@csd2.UUCP> Date: Sun, 22-Sep-85 11:45:00 EDT Article-I.D.: csd2.3780096 Posted: Sun Sep 22 11:45:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 07:07:50 EDT References: <741@lsuc.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 33 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.