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Thread ID: 10028 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-09-25
2003-09-25 13:40 | User Profile
From: Pg 114 [I]A Return to Modesty, Discovering the Lost Virtue[/I] by Wendy Shalit
ââ¬ÅHence, in Judaism, there is the husbandââ¬â¢s sexual obligation to his wife: before he goes away on a journey, after she returns home from the [I]mikveh[/I], and so forth. As Maimonides elaborates:
[I]1. The conjugal [womenââ¬â¢s sexual] rights mentioned in the Torah are obligatory upon each man according to his physical powers and his occupation. How so? For the men who are healthy and live in comfortable and pleasurable circumstances, without having to perform work that would weaken their strength, and only eat and drink and sit 8idly in their homes, their conjugal schedule is every night; for the laborers, such as tailors, weavers, masons, and the like their conjugal schedule is twice weekly; if their work is in the same city, and once a week if their work is in another city.; for the donkey drivers, their schedule is once a week; for the camel drivers, once in thirty days . . . for the learned, once a week, because the study of the Torah weakens their strength; it is the practice of the learned to have conjugal relations each Friday. 2. A wife may restrict her husband in hs business journeys, so that he would not otherwise deprive her if her conjugal rights. Hence, he may not set out except with her permission. Similarly, she may prevent him from changing an occupation involving a frequent conjugal schedule for one involving an infrequent one.ââ¬Â[/I]