What is Judith Plaskows thoughts on Sexuality and jewish tradtion?
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Who is Judith Plaskow??
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Betty Goldstein graduated from Smith College in 1942 and worked for five years before marrying Carl Friedan (divorced 1969) and settling uncomfortably into the life of a housewife, mother, and occasional freelance writer. Discovering in 1957 that several of her college classmates were as dissatisfied with their lives as she was with her own, she began a series of studies that eventually resulted in the landmark work The Feminine Mystique (1963). The book's thesis was that women were victims of a pervasive system of delusions and false values that urged them to find their fulfillment and identity vicariously, through their husbands and children. An immediate and controversial best-seller, it is now regarded as one of the most influential American books of the 20th century. \nIn 1966 Friedan cofounded the National Organization for Women (NOW), which was dedicated to achieving equality of opportunity for women. A founding member of the National Women's Political Caucus (1971), she was a leader of the campaign for Works by Betty Friedan ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. The Second Stage (1981) assessed the status of the women's movement. The Fountain of Age (1993) addresses the psychology of old age, seeking to counter the notion that aging means loss and depletion. Her memoir, Life So Far, appeared in 2000.
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The Oedipus Complex was a term coined by Freud and is supposedly an innate characteristic.  If you ask me, Freud was a little crazy.  I'm sure it didn't help that his mother was beautiful.
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I don't think so. \n\nAny young man, whether heterosexual or homosexual, has raging hormones.\n\nThis idea of a celibate clergy came from the Jews, John the Baptist, Jesus, and the Apostle Paul. All three of these holy men were celibate heterosexuals (to the best of our knowledge).\n\nThe Jews. The Talmud argues that a person whose “soul is bound up with the Torah and is constantly occupied with it” may remain celibate (Maimonides, Laws of Marriage 15.3). For example, Yahweh ordered the prophet Jeremiah not to marry (Jeremiah 16:1-4). Moreover, the Essenes was a group that was active in Jesus’ time that practiced celibacy and thought by most scholars to be the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls.\n\nWWJD? What would Jesus do? Jesus did not marry.\n\nJohn the Baptist and Jesus are both believed to have been celibate for their entire lives. Some scholars believe that the example of the Essenes influenced either or both Jesus and John the Baptist in their celibacy.\n\nThe Apostle Paul is explicit about his celibacy (see 1 Cor. 7). There is also evidence in the gospel of Matthew for the practice of celibacy among at least some early Christians, in the famous passage about becoming “eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 19:12).  \n\nThe concept took many twists and turns over the years and will probably take a few more before Christ returns in glory.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Amen, sista'!\nI'm jewish and have the same problem with people's warped attitudes on this.  We should form an organization: "Women against stupid religious warmongering and prejudice."
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I'm sorry to break this fantasy, but there are NO Jewish monks.\n\nWe believe in procreation.
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Oh no.......dr ruth is into sex.......and if you're talkin about\ndr spock, he's inta babies..........(but not HIS own)
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REV TRASK FRANKENSTEIN ,I AM JEWISH AND I HOPE NO RIVALS COME TO OUR SYNAGOGUE..SOUNDS SCARY TO ME
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According to most scientists and psychologist, being gay is physiological verses psychological. There is a part of the brain called the hypothamalus. In heterosexual men this gland is larger than a heterosexual woman’s which is much smaller in size. Recent studies of autopsies performed on gays reveal the size of hypothamalus’ of homosexuals (both male and female) aren’t as large as a heterosexual male or as small as a heterosexual female.\n\nHomosexuality occurs naturally in most species of animals.\n\nForgoing the physical causes of homosexuality, socialization, environment and personal beliefs often have an influence on whether a person live a gay or straight life. For instance, a person who believes they may be gay might suppress those feelings if they are raised in an environment where homosexuality is considered taboo and self expression is censored. On the other hand, a person with homosexual tendencies may be more willing to explore those feelings if raised in an environment which encourages expression and self individualism.\n\nSince our sexuality doesn’t develop until long after birth, I don’t see how anyone can be born heterosexual or homosexual. \n\nSome uninformed individuals claim homosexuality is a choice. The question to those people would be, “Did you have to choose to be straight.” The answer will almost always be, “Hell no!” Just as a heterosexual could no more “choose” to be gay, a homosexual would have a difficult time choosing to be straight.\n\nAs for religious arguments, the passages in Genesis merely explain heterosexual relationships and does not condemn or even speak to homosexual acts. The only direct mention of homosexuality in the Bible can be found in the Old Testament under Leviticus along with the sins of wearing woven clothing (cotton), eating shell fish, shaving, and not allowing women to preach the word of God, amongst other forgotten sins. These sins were made non-sins by the words of Jesus. That is why good “Christians” can shave, while wearing their cotton briefs and eat oyster without having to worry about going to Hell.\n\nIn the New Testament, many newer interpretations claim that the rapists who came to Lot’s house were gay, but they were rapists, which rape is a sin. In another passage the words used to describe male prostitutes has been translated into “homosexuals” by watered down modern day Bibles. Prostitution is a sin, but at the time, there was no homosexual culture to condemn.\n\nThe most prolific argument against Biblical condemnation of homosexuals came from Jesus who was to be God’s final word on the subject. When given the opportunity to condemn homosexual behavior, He did not.\n\nWhen you see the word “homosexual’ in a Bible understand there was no word to describe homosexuality at the time of the writing of the Bible. Go to the King James Version and read the same passages. Those translations of those same words pertain only to male prostitution and rapists, which are both sins.\n\nLastly, many lost Christians say the Bible says intercourse is for the purpose of reproduction only and the only reason man was put on this earth was to reproduce. Well I can’t find one Christian who says they only have intercourse for the purpose of reproduction. As for the misnomer man was put on this earth for the sole purpose of reproduction, what about people who for one reason or another cannot reproduce? Are they all going to hell? If all of the world’s trees produced fruit, the fruit would lay rotting on the ground.
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Bat Melachim - A Princess\n\nTehillim 45:14 The full glory of a king's daughter is within; her raiment is inwrought with gold.\n\nCasual or improper dress exhibits a lack of self-esteem and self-respect, while tzniut (modesty) entails being aware of the importance of the Bat Yisrael (Daughter of Israel) and ensuring that she is properly protected.  In reference to tzniut the Jewish woman is called a Bat Melachim.  This indicates that tzniut is born out of a realization of the Jewish woman's royal status.  Knowing she is a Bat Melachim guarantees that she dresses appropriately.\n\nMoreover, casual dress projects an undisciplined, wayward attitude to life, while modesty entails a style of life in which one is careful to fulfill halacha (Jewish law) and avoid all forms of intermingling.\n\nWhen a woman is particular about tzniut, and ensures that her dress is appropriate for a mother or future mother in Klal Yisrael (the Jewish People), her clothes generate splendor and prestige.  Her aristocratic manner of dress bears witness to the fact that she has consecrated her life to the service of her Creator.  Rather than make worldly desires the essence of her life, she uses the means given to her in a proficient and praiseworthy manner for the furtherance of her true role - to set up a home from which Torah and Yirat Hashem (Fear of G-d) shall shine forth.  Just as the priestly garments of the Kohen (Priest) are described by the Torah as magnificent (Shemot/Ex. 28:2), for they demonstrate that the Kohen is engaged in a holy and distinguished service, so too, the garments of the true Bat Yisrael demonstrate that her days are filled with true values.  Hence, the strength displayed by the effort she has made to find such refined clothes reveals her inner royalty and splendor.  Her personality is a harmonious blend of firmness and tenderness.  She is an embodiment of good midot (ethics) and strength of character.
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someone who thinks they are a man/woman trapped inside the other sex's body.
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Penis envy was a part of Freud's develomental theory. "Freud believed that during development girls had to switch from having the mother as the love object to having the father as the love object: and also switch from the clitoris to the vagina as the main genital zone. At about the age of four, Freud believed that girls first discovered they lacked a penis. The girl will blame her mother or the lack of a penis and the consequent hurt to her own self-esteem. This causes the girl to give up clitoral sexuality, and turn to the father as love object. This aspect of Freud’s theory has received a great deal of criticism, particularly from feminist psychoanalysts."\n\nHey, you just made me learn something new. I had no idea that penis envy also referred to males being envious of males with larger penises. In response to your question I would have to say the answer is no. Males have penis envy because they feel that they are inadequate in size compared to other men. However, women don't obsess with the size of their clitoris the same way that men do with thier penises.
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hmm lets see\n\norgan donation is a hot topic  in the Orthodox movement. \n\nanything doing with ethical issues with the Israeli military conduct in war.\n\ntheir is a huge fight brewing in the Conservative movement over Homosexual issues.\n\nthose are the ones off the top of my head I recommend 1 or 3
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Sylvia Plath is comparing herself to the biblical character Lazarus in that poem, as she had "resurrected" herself from suicide a few times before that. She doesn't want to be rescued, and she holds those around her in contempt, particularly men.
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""Why is it Jewish People believe they are the chosen people?""\n\nBecause we are, because Gd said so, because Gd does not change his mind, because Gd said the covenant between Him and we Jews is eternal, just like He is eternal, because History has proved this to be true, because the Jews themselves have proven this to be true!!!\n\nAs Mark Twain Wrote in Harper's Magazine, March issue, 1898\n"Concerning The Jews"::::\n\n"""To conclude. - If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one per cent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star-dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of; but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. \n\nHe has made a marvellous fight in this world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. \n\nThe Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?"""  \n\nThat secret is that we are, indeed, Gd's Chosen People!!
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i bet its jewish r u askin cuz of elliot yamin on american idol? plz e-mail me and anser back!\ndurvillian@yahoo.com
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Christianity and jewish thoughts certainly conditioned the thoughts of Karl Marx and the Crusades that lasted from 1090s till 1260s had certainly influenced his conclusions on the general nature of organised religions in Europe. But apart from that there is nothing that warrants any comparison between the two.\n\nMarxism minus proletarian dictatorship is not Christianity, nor if Marxism starts believing in God it becomes Christianity.