Ep 240 | Separation: The Strange Secret of Marital Togetherness

Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Unless you're the Post Office or a University, you do not offer lifetime employment to new hires. It is a bad business practice. So why do we marry and say to each other, "this is forever" or "till death us do part"? Tenure is not good at the post office and not good at universities, so why does it work for marriage? Most successful partnerships are built on a carefully drafted partnership agreement. Why do many marriage partnerships thrive without any written agreement? The best airline pilots have gained proficiency on about ten or twenty different airplanes before they take the controls of the airliner you are riding in. Surely the best marriages are when husband and wife have gained proficiency with ten or twenty other people before you? Read about our special Passover discount on The Financial Prosperity Collection here https://www.wehappywarriors.com/financial-prosperity-collection. How can the action that creates life be anything but holy? But how can the source of great sensual pleasure be holy? How can a wife be both a sister and a bride? How can we possibly live together: Men believe all pain and sadness can be healed with physical intimacy, but women don't. Banishing the tedium of familiarity and recovering the original euphoria.

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