Chapter 11

Question 1

One fourth of the vast Talmud consists of material on the subject of … what?

Answer 1

women

Question 2

How does Judaism regard sex? And for what four purposes?

Answer 2

cord that secures the union of two lovers for life; shared strength, pleasure, ease, rearing of children

Question 3

When do orthodox Jewish couples sleep apart? Why?

Answer 3

during 12 days after menses begin or 7 days after they cease (whichever period lasts longer); they rejoin at the time when the wife is most likely to conceive

Question 4

How does the orthodox Jewish wife mark the end of the abstinence?

Answer 4

immersion in an ocean, river, or lake, or ritual pool

Question 5

What is a Jewish ritual immersion pool or font called?

Answer 5

mikvah

Question 6

The rite of the pool, which takes a few seconds, is … what?

Answer 6

wholly symbolic

Question 7

Judaism regards divorce as … what?

Answer 7

catastrophe that is bound to occur in a certain number of marriages