Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
AJS Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
44,1 (2020) 183
Keywords:
Jewish families History
;
Marriage Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
History
;
Sex Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
History of doctrines
;
Masturbation Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Jews History Middle Ages, 500-1500
Abstract:
The article surveys the development of the approaches towards nonfertile marital life in Ashkenazic and Sephardic communities. It appearsthat twelfth-century Ashkenazic Halakhah eroded the duty of procreation, leading to its permissive view of unnatural relations. In thatview, aspiring to actualize sexual desires is legitimate, and satisfactionwithin married life prevents infidelity and sin. It should be recalled thatin the Middle Ages pregnancy posed an extremely high risk to awoman’s life, and unnatural relations served as an effective contraceptive method. In the thirteenth century, the trend of religious extremismin the Jewish community in France and the struggle against Catharpromiscuity in the general society led to the setting of moral andlegal restrictions regarding this conduct. The new norm viewed the prevention of potential life as an act of murder, so that one who wastedsemen in this manner was deserving of death as if he had committedbloodshed.
Note:
With an English summary.
DOI:
10.1017/S0364009419001132
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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