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Posted By admin on July 21, 2021

I have not watched the new Netflix series My Unorthodox Life, a show supposedly about how fashion executive Julia Haart lives her life in freedom from the repressive Orthodox Judaism in which she was raised.Im not boycotting the show because it attacks Judaism. This has become weirdly common on Netflix. Indeed, youd think its executives would at least have come up with a name more creative than the exact same title as the 2020 series Unorthodox.Less so am I skipping the show because of Haart herself. Ive never met her, and I have nothing against her. Many people who are raised with religion abandon it, and that is their choice. I am utterly opposed to religious coercion of every variety, and if Haart feels that Orthodoxy is an oppressive downer, thats her choice.And even less so am I skipping the series because of the hypocrisy of how Netflix would never even contemplate doing a series of how, say, an American Muslim woman rebels against wearing the hijab and her perceived oppression by Islam.One more thing. Im not even skipping the series because of its perceived exploitation of Haarts children, something Ive been extremely careful about in my own TV series. When I did Shalom in the Home for TLC, many producers pushed us to do an entire series about my own family. They said it would be a positive portrayal of a religious Jewish family. But some of my kids were opposed, so we dropped the entire idea.

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As for Judaisms rules about sex which, she so derisively dismisses, the interesting thing is this: Judaism has almost no rules about sex, something I highlighted at length in my book Kosher Sex. Every position and every pleasurable interaction is allowed. Indeed, about the only things that are forbidden are pornography, because youre being excited by strangers and not each other; and having sex during menstruation, because Judaism wants the erotic barrier of sexual forbiddenness of several days each month to magnify lust and desire. Husbands and wives need a period of sexual separation in order to hunger for each others bodies again.

Indeed, the Orthodox Jewish marriage is based far more on lust than love, a point easily demonstrated by the 10th commandment. It expressly forbids lusting after your neighbors wife, which by direct implication means you sure as heck ought to be lusting after your own.

Orthodox Jewish couples have not only great sex but the best sex. Sensuality is constant and eroticism is deeply encouraged, which is why Orthodox Jewish women dress so beautifully and elegantly, a point that Haart completely misrepresents.

Dont believe me? Go to any of the Orthodox communities in Brooklyn or Manhattan and be amazed at how gorgeous and striking the religious Jewish women are.

The writer is author of the international best sellers Kosher Sex, Kosher Lust, and Lust for Love, coauthored with Pamela Anderson. His daughter Chana started the Kosher.Sex company which seeks to enhance passion and intimacy in marriage. Follow him on Instagram and Twitter @RabbiShmuley.

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Orthodox Jews have the best sex - opinion - The Jerusalem Post

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