LESSON 6
Reservations for Two:
Defining Marriage’s Boundaries
Approximately 20 percent of married men and 15 percent of married
women in the United States under 35 admit to having been unfaithful. Yet,
at the same time, about 95 percent of Americans believe that infidelity is
wrong. This leads to a startling and dismaying conclusion: Even those with
expectations of eternal faithfulness, even those in happy marriages, are
not immune to crossing a line into a place they never dreamed they would
go. The Talmud, in fact, states that no one, even a righteous individual, is
immune to the temptation of infidelity.
Judaism shows us not only how to thwart temptations that threaten our
marriage from the outside, but how to enhance it from within to ensure
that the walls of exclusivity and privacy of our marriage remain fortified
and strong.