Mord's question about Pilagash

[Fruit of thy loins]

This one gets three thumbs up from me.  I agree with that strand of rabbinic thinking.   

(originally posted by mord)
Pilagash


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There is a strong strand of rabbinic opinion (see Jacob Emden) that a
> sexual relationship (called "pilagshut") which is not a marriage, which is
> entered freely and equally by a man and woman, and which requires no gett,
> but only the decision of either party to dissolve it, is legitimate.

> it is important to teach that it is possible to shape a sexual relationship
> between two unmarried people that is sacred and holy. It is the organized
> Jewish community that sins when it refuses to join in shaping the ethical
> and ceremonial forms that would make this more likely.

[Fruit of thy loins]

A girl I once knew, a young Englishwoman, went abroad and met a Jewish man.  He had a fancy car (she told me all this through email).  Anyway, it turned out he had sex not just with her but with three other local women and made two of them pregnant.

Honestly, let me tell you something.  When one hears of things like this, nothing else in the world matters any more.  You have to scratch your head and think to yourself, is there anything more to this world than sex?  ANd if you don't get sex - what are you doing here in the first place?

This world is crazy.