http://www.mechon-mamre.org/e/e0002.htm

That there shall be no prostitute, which is a woman who has sexual relations without a marriage contract and sanctification ceremony, as it is written “there shall be no harlot” (Deuteronomy 23,18).

It sounds much better in Hebrew.

One more proof for my contention that Orthodox Judaism today has more in common with Catholicism than anything in the Tanakh. Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Berkovits, in Crisis and Faith, says that Freud’s sexual theories could only have arisen from the midst of a society possessing (or once having possessed) Christian sexual ethics. But I suspect that someday soon (if not already), the Freudian sexual neuroses will be popping up in the Orthodox Jews as well.

We’re supposed to sanctity the mundane, as Rav Kook teaches, so that’s just what we did with papal infallibility as well. Yay!

(For the record, my hashqafa and practice is a combination of German Neo-Orthodox and Turkish Sephardi, with some Rav Kook and Religious Zionism thrown in for good measure. So no one had better call me a non-Orthodox Jew criticizing the Orthodox from the outside.)

Crisis and Faith, says that Freud’s sexual theories could only have arisen from the midst of a society possessing (or once having possessed) Christian sexual

ethics. But I suspect that someday soon (if not already), the Freudian sexual neuroses will be popping up in the Orthodox Jews as well.

We’re supposed to sanctity the mundane, as Rav Kook teaches, so that’s just what we did with papal infallibility as well. Yay!

(For the record, my hashqafaand practice is a combination of German Neo-Orthodox and Turkish Sephardi, with some Rav Kook and Religious Zionism

thrown in for good measure. So no one had better call me a non-Orthodox Jew criticizing the Orthodox from the outside.)