To love God…

B”HWhat is the proper love that we must have for God? It is to love God with an exceedingly great and intensely powerful love, until the individual is constantly enraptured by it; he must be stricken like a lovesick person, whose mind is at no time free from his passion for a particular woman, with [...]

Politics, Religion, and "Love"

Sometimes as a part of the religious, G-d fearing community; we lose sight (or maybe we are just not so interested) of the secular world’s view of any particular topic at hand. Look at the topic of marriage; how diverse the viewpoint is. For most religious communities, rather they be Jewish, [...]

New author on board!

B”HDear readers!For those who didn’t notice this yet we now have the honor and pleasure of having another team member join this blog to learn more about her see:http://www2.blogger.com/profile/00312083129209724838Here is the 1st article she has writen:http://pilegesh.blogspot.com/2007/03/politics-religion-and-love.html

Rabbi Borat’s Video Guide to Dating

B”H Jagshemash!My name is Rabbi Boruch(Borat)Sagdievsky I am a Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi in Kazakhstan now read all about that here or in my cool new blogger profile http://www2.blogger.com/profile/01306877347959656400.Rabbi Noah Smith the “kosher pilegesh shadchan (matchmaker)” (trademark) asked me to come and write for his blog. He pay me lots of money and it’s all for [...]

"The Jewish Woman"

B”H“The Jewish Woman, in the light of the Lubavitcher Rebbe King Moshiach’s (Messiah’s)Teachings”, an upcoming film from Jewish Educational Media.

RabbiEmden’s responsa in English Translation and more:

B”HPilegesh.org was the 1st and only place online to post the complete translation of the Rabbi Yaakov Emden’s 40 page responsa regarding the permissibility of pilegesh relationships. Thanks to Mark Guterman it is now available as a PDF file for easier reading, printing and sharing:http://pilegeshpersonals.com/Rabbi_Yaakov_Emden’s_responsa_on_Pilegesh.pdfPS. You can also download
Proffesor Tzvi Zohar’s comprehensive research on [...]

Want a get? Forego compensation

B”HAnother reason not to marry with Chuppah and kidushin, but to live in a pilegesh relationship insteadPS: See also “Stop kvetching start a revolution!” http://pilegesh.blogspot.com/2007/02/stop-kvetching-start-revolution.html :Want a get? Forego compensation
By Tamar Rotem
“Is it possible to explain the bitter disappointment a woman feels during years of futile back-and-forth discussions in the rabbinic court, when [...]

Take a survey please:

B”HDear readers!Someone sent me and few other notable J-bloggers this email:
Hello,
My name is Mark Guterman. I am a Clinical Psychology PhD student working with Orit Avishai of the University of California at Berkeley. We are doing an internet survey of Jews of all denominations. The survey is for both singles and married couples. [...]

Campaign For Real Beauty

B”HWhat is real beauty? Dove’s new Real Beauty Campaign has a lot of people cheering.
Working against the mainstream world, Dove is producing magazine ads and commercials that aim at dispelling our society’s take on beauty, and encourage us to come up with a more, well, real definition.
Watch this video.
It will [...]

The Making of a Girl

B”HB”HThe Making of a GirlProducer: Jillian Buckley
An intimate journey of a hypothetical girl as she faces a life of sexual exploitation. Rachel Lloyd, founder of Girls Educational and Mentoring Services, takes us through the pain, trauma prevention and healing of sex trafficking, abuse, and sexual exploitation.