Sexual Ethics

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Sexual Ethics
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Abortion

• Biblical basis- Exodus 2122-23
• Issues
• Rodef- pursuer
• Viability of fetus
• When does life begin
• Ultra-orthodox
• Orthodox/Conservative
• Reform

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Birth Control

• Expectation of having children
• First commandment in Torah- be fruitful and
  multiply
• Question of spilling seed
• Genesis 38, 6-10
• What is permitted and forbidden

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Relationships

• The times for conjugal duty prescribed in the
  Torah are
• for men of independent means, every day
• for laborers, twice a week
• for donkey drivers, once a week
• for camel drivers, once in thirty days
• for sailors, once in six months. Talmud, Ketubot
  61b
• Cannot change profession if it means less
  frequency or more onerous (like becoming a tanner)

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• sexual pleasure is a wifes right and a husbands
  obligation
• a man may not compel his wife to fulfill the
  marital obligation
• if a husband refuses to perform his marital
  obligation in a loving, romantic, and sexually
  pleasing way, his wife actually has the right to
  demand a divorce

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Fertile Technology

• Basic Principle
• Be fruitful and multiply First biblical
  commandment
• Artificial Insemination
• IVF
• Surrogate Motherhood

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IVF

• Basically accepted
• AIH
• AID
• Status of spare embryos

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Homosexuality

• Biblical basis
• Lev. 1822 Lev. 2013 Deut. 2317
• Are the laws equal for men and women
• Various views today
• Reform
• Conservative
• Orthodox

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Ritual Uncleanliness

• Taharat Ha-Mishpaha
• Basis- Leviticus 1519-30, 1819, 2018
• Not just says of low but 7 additional days
• Nothing to do with physical uncleanliness
• Mikva