If you were to ask me, the wisest rabbi now in practice is Abraham Twerski. Here are some of his thoughts on marriage:
The Talmud says that the relationship of a husband to his wife should be “to love her as much as he loves himself, and to respect her even more than he respects himself” (Yevamos 62b). It is of interest that Rambam, in citing the Talmud, reverses the order and places respect before love. Why? Because it is unrealistic to expect that one can have so intense a love from day one. It takes time for true love to develop. However, respect is something that can begin on day one.
See what I mean. Wisest rabbi around.
Some of his phrases are untranslated Hebrew, but I think it may be self explanatory from the context. If not, just ask for translation in the comments, and I will answer.
In the January 2010 issue of First Things, (unfortunately not yet on-line) David Goldman rhetorically asks: “Have Birtain’s jews ever undergone a legal assault on the practice of thier religion within their own institutions?”
They have now. A British court has ruled that an Orthodox Jewish school’s admission policy violated the UK’s civil rights laws which prohibit discrimination on the basis of race or ethnicity. The offending action by the school was to deny admission to the child of a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother who converted to Judaism at a progressive synagogue. The implication of this decision, if it is allowed to stand, is not only that the Orthodox Jewish community cannot control their own institutions. It is that the British court has declared Judaism itself to be racist. According to Britain’s cheif rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, Read more…
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