Sexuality and Sanctity — Desire and Pleasure

Introduction

Rabbi Rahel Berkovits speaks on Sexuality and Sanctity – Desire and Pleasure before an audience at Valley Beit Midrash in Paradise Valley, AZ. Thanks to Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz and the Valley Beit Midrash for the recording.

*Explicit Content* – The material in this lecture contains frank discussion about human sexuality. Discretion is advised.

Rahel Berkovits

Rabbi Rahel Berkovits is Senior Faculty at Pardes, where she has taught Mishnah, Talmud and Halakha for more than twenty years. She lectures widely in Israel and abroad on topics relating to women and Jewish law and Jewish sexual ethics. In 2015, Rahel received rabbinic ordination from Rabbis Herzl Hefter and Daniel Sperber.

Rahel is the halakhic editor and a writer for Hilkhot Nashim, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance’s halakhic source guide series published by Koren. She is also a founding member of Congregation Shirah Hadasha, a halakhic partnership synagogue in Jerusalem, where she serves on the halakha committee.