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Indeed, this is a prominent stream of thought in traditional Jewish philosophy. As Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits argues in his essay “A Jewish Sexual Ethics,” while many Christian denominations advocate a repression of sensual desire, Judaism humanizes sexuality by framing its pleasure as a mitzvah...
Sexual desire, in other words, can become a vehicle for consecration if it is acted upon in the proper place and context, and Catholic ethicists ought to emphasize this aspect of their thought if they seek to promote abstinence in a relevant fashion. When one directs his energy towards something...
Somewhere between the overwhelming structure of the city and the natural expressions of time manifested in the desert, between the two, exact days that mark the beginning and end of the book and the melting of months that comprise its body, DeLillo tries to grasp the blend of individual and...
Paulson responded that while editing his memoir—“On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System”—he had changed the word “greed” to “profit motive.?...
While last Tuesday’s snowfall satisfied many students’ long desire for a white winter, that day of frosting would hardly cut the cake up North, where ski resorts abound, and deep snow covers campuses all winter long.