{"id":471,"date":"2017-05-30T13:14:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T13:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/?p=471"},"modified":"2017-07-25T17:10:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T17:10:54","slug":"desire-intimacy-in-eden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2017\/05\/desire-intimacy-in-eden\/","title":{"rendered":"Desire: Intimacy In Eden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jewishweek.timesofisrael.com\/desire-intimacy-in-eden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In her Jewish Week article<\/a>, Temima Goldberg Shulman analyzes the relationship between Adam and Eve:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This one shall be called Woman, for from Man was she taken. Hence a Man \u2026 clings to his wife, so that they become one flesh\u201d [Gen. 2: 23-24]. These verses, packed with alliteration and symbolism, also introduce an additional literary concept: Myth.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first, and seemingly lasting, myth that humans have held onto about marriage: Each one of us was once one with someone, and, therefore, when we find the right one, we will be complete again. But is God really asking us to complete something broken, or to create something unique?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her Jewish Week article, Temima Goldberg Shulman analyzes the relationship between Adam and Eve: \u201cThis one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This one shall be called Woman, for from Man was she taken. Hence a Man \u2026 clings to his wife, so that they become one flesh\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2017\/05\/desire-intimacy-in-eden\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"coauthors":[81],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-womens-forum"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}