Table of Contents

Abortion - 9
Accepted Torah to avoid death - 12
Adam and Eve are the prototype 12
Adam and Eve punished 14
Adam and sexuality 15
Adam had intercourse with all the animals 17
Adam’s Sin 19
Adultery 21
Advice of wife 31
Agunah 32
Annulment of marriage 36
Aphrodisiac 42
Artificial insemination 42
Asceticism 43
Authority 52
Avoiding sexual sins 52
Baal Keri 55
Bad wife 56
Bar/bas mitzva 59
Bashert – predestined spouse 59
Beauty 62
Behavior with wife can be learned from animals 65
Beracha 66
Bestiality 68
Bias against women 70
Birth control 73
Castration 75
Celibacy 76
Chasidic view 77
Cheruvim 79
Childbirth 80
Circumcision 81
Civil marriage and divorce 81
Coeducation 83
Contraception 84
Conversion 85
Cosmetics 88

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Creation of Man and woman 88
Dances 95
Dating for social purposes 96
Daughter 97
Death and Sin 98
Divorce 99
Dovid HaMelech 123
Dreams 127
Engagement – broken 129
Eve and Evil 129
Eve and serpent 130
Ezer kenegdo - helper women were created to serve man 131
Feminism – women’s liberation 135
Gender distinction 137
Gender male and female 139
Good wife 143
Holy 145
Homosexuality 153
Honoring parents 160
Important women 162
Impotent 164
Incest 166
Infertile 168
Intercourse 169
Intermarriage 191
Intimacy 194
Kannoi – Zealot killing 195
Kesubah 196
Kiddushei Kesef – Rabbinic or Torah 197
Kissing 198
Kol isha 200
Lilith 201
Looking at women 202
Love 205
Lust 211
Male children 233
Mamzer 236
Man acquires a wife – significance? 238
Marriage 239
Masturbation and sexual arousal 257

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Match making is as difficult as splitting the Sea 262
Mechitza 264
Mikve 264
Mixed gender gatherings 268
Models of marriage 270
Modesty 278
Moredes 289
Niddah 292
Non-Jew 302
Obligations? 310
Pele Yoetz 321
Pilegesh 325
Pleasure 326
Polygamy 335
Pornography 338
Prayer 338
Prayer – intercourse 338
Prayer for finding wife 339
Prayer pregnancy 340
Premarital sex 340
Procreation 341
Prostitution –Zona 349
Protesting harmful or sinful behavior 354
Punishment for sexual sins 356
Punishment for sexual sins exaggerated 358
Purpose of marriage is to have children 359
Rabbi Friefeld 361
Rambam 361
Rape 363
Rashi 370
Reclining in presence of husband 373
Reform and Conservative rabbis are considered heretics 375
Repentance Teshuva 375
Righteous 379
Seductive wife 381
Semen 381
Sensitive to wife’s feelings 383
Sex education 387
Sex is disgusting 390
Sex is sinful 393

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Sexual arousal – using the bathhouse or mikve 394
Sexual discussion 395
Sexual metaphors 396
Sexual prohibition 398
Sexual thoughts are prohibited 406
Shadchan 411
Shaking hands with women 411
Shalom bayis – Domestic Tranquility 411
Sheitel 417
Shir HaShirim 418
Shlomo did not sin by marrying the daughter of Pharoh? 419
Sodomy 419
Spouse- choosing 422
Spouse dying 432
Staring at bride 432
Talking with women or wife 433
Therapists and expert advice 438
Torah study – women 441
Utilizing a woman is prohibited 444
Virgin 446
Wedding celebration 447
Wife adopts husband’s customs 449
Wife as supervisor (mashgiach) regarding religious issues? 450
Wife dies as punishment 451
Wife has to obey everything her husband says? 451
Wife subservient to husband and he rules over her 452
Wife beating is prohibited 461
Woman cause of sin 4650
Women – characteristics 465
Women and death 476
Women are a different type of mate 478
Women are different spiritually than Man 479
Women are exempt from certain mitzvos 483
Women are more bitter than death 486
Women prefer marriage 487
Women should not go out of the house 487
Yichud prohibition of seclusion 491
Yofas Toar 495
Zera l’vatala – wasting seed 497