Catégorie : For Her
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Looking for your Jewish soulmate? Are you too picky?
You have been looking for your Jewish soulmate for ages? Consulting dating sites has become your nightly entertainment of choice? Your friends have introduced you to all their single acquaintances? Though you have met several suitable candidates, people your friends liked, your parents liked and maybe even you liked, you still haven’t found THE one:…
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Common Relationship Problems: Keeping Score
In order to avoid one of the most common relationship problems, it is important to keep one thing in mind: what you do for your partner must be done out of love, and not out of a sense of obligation. Unlike some people who believe that a relationship should be 50-50, to make a marriage…
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How to Recover From a Broken Heart
Getting over a broken heart is never easy. After all, we loved and trusted our partner, and no matter what the reason for the break up, the loss of that love and trust hurts. But in the end, a broken heart usually makes us stronger and helps us be a better partner in our next…
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Relationship Questions: How Can We Agree on a Decision?
Among the most common relationship questions are those that revolve around the problems that couples face when they need to come to an agreement . The Jewish view of marriage is that each partner is half of a whole, and each is as important as the other. If so, whose opinion holds more weight when…
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Making Love: Keeping the Passion in Your Marriage
We all understand the importance that making love has in a Jewish marriage. The Jewish faith believes that a man and wife making love is one of the greatest mitzvahs. In fact, it is so important that the quality and quantity of sex that a husband is required to provide to his wife is specified in…
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Romantic Ideas for Building Intimacy in Your Relationship
Every Jewish couple needs to come up with some new romantic ideas from time to time. Even if you have found your bashert, it is important to remember that it takes some effort to maintain a healthy relationship. Building intimacy takes time, and the key to a happy Jewish marriage is making a sustained effort…
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Trust in Relationships Requires Emotional Intimacy
Many couples want to know how they can build trust in relationships. When we are first getting to know someone we have no idea if they will treat us with honesty and integrity. As time goes on, trust hopefully develops, but not always. Even marriages can suffer from a lack of trust because of a…
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Common Relationship Problems: Relating to Ex-Partners
One of the most common relationship problems stems from what to do when the relationship ends. Although most Jewish couples enter into marriage with the best of intentions, Jewish law recognizes that there are some circumstances in which divorce is better for both parties. Rabbi Earl A. Grollman says, “When the basic ingredients of love,…
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How to Save a Marriage: Compromise
One of the most common requests for advice asked of Jewish sages is how to save a marriage. To which, the most frequent reply is : “learn how to compromise.” Rabbi Benjamin Blech, who has been happily married for over 50 years, says “You know what you call someone who believes they’re always right? Divorced.”…
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Common Relationship Problems: Money
When a Jewish marriage is threatened with the possibility of a break up, there is a good chance that it is due to one of the most common relationship problems — money. Even the Jewish wedding ceremony includes a reference to money in the form of the ring that a Jewish man gives to his…