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SUMMARY:Were Our Sages Prudes?
DESCRIPTION:Jewish Federation of Ottawa\nCommunity Calendar\nhttps://jewish
 ottawa.com/community-calendar/were-our-sages-prudes-1680029177\n\nShir ha 
 Shirim is an intensely sensual and erotic text\, read on Shabbat during Pa
 ssover. The words of a poetic translation such as Marcia Falk’s The Song
  of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible\, or even of a more standardly rende
 red translation awaken in us remarkable sensations of taste\, smell\, touc
 h. The Lovers’ mutual pleasure is unmistakably human bodily pleasure. Ou
 r Sages\, however read Shir ha Shirim as piously religious allegory. Why? 
 Were our Sages sex-negative? At first blush\, it se...
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