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=Detroit Jewish News
Shmuley Boteach
is an Orthodox
rabbi with
an unorthodox
approach.
RAHEL MUSLEAH
Special to The Jewish News
IV
hat's most sur-
prising about
Shmuley
Boteach's new
book is not its concept —
that good sex leads to intima-
cy — nor even its title,
Kosher Sex (Doubleday;
sured to resign from his London syna-
$19.95), which adds the little-
gogue — the rabbi has embraced the
explored spin of Jewish wisdom to a
controversy to bring the Jewish atti-
),
much-talked-about subject.
tude toward sex out of the closet.
What's most surprising is Shmuley
"I want to show that religion is not
Boteach himself, a 32-year-old
irrelevant," he says. "We have to
Orthodox rabbi with six children
repackage Jewish wisdom for modern
under the age of 10, whose
audiences. I write about sex because it
untrimmed beard, yeshiva education
is holy. It is as religious a subject as a
and Lubavitch beliefs hardly match
discussion of belief in God."
the profile of a sex guru.
Born in Los Angeles and raised in
But that is what Boteach has
a modern Orthodox home in Miami,
become. Since Kosher Sex was pub-
Boteach says he has been analyzing
lished in England by a small literary
the secret to good relationships from
publisher called Duckworth last May,
the age of 8, when his parents'
it has gone into six printings, sold
divorce left him
15,000 copies (equivalent to
deeply scarred.
90,000 in U.S. sales) and cata- Above: Rabbi Shmuley
At 13, he visited the
Boteach: "Great sex is
pulted the outspoken rabbi
Lubavitcher
rebbe,
undertaken by two
into the spotlight.
Menahem
Schneerson,
separate bodies, kosher
Talk shows, radio programs
to get a blessing for his
sex by two halves of
and newspaper interviews, even"
bar mitzvah. The rebbe
the same soul."
an excerpt in Playboy — yes, he
told him to dedicate his
saw it — have become common-
life to being a "source
place for Boteach, rabbi at England's
of joy, light and inspiration to the Jewish
Oxford University for the past 11 years
people and the whole world."
and the director of the EChaim Society,
After Boteach completed his rab-
a Jewish education organization that
binic studies, the rebbe sent him to
hosts world figures, from Mikhail
rejuvenate Jewish life at Oxford.
Gorbachev to Boy George, who lecture
L'Chaim is now the second-largest stu-
on values-based leadership.
dent organization at Oxford, with
Doubleday just released Kosher Sex
both Jewish and non-Jewish members.
in the U.S. market, with an initial
Although Boteach still considers
printing of 20,000. It already is a best-
himself Lubavitch, he and the organi-
seller in Israel.
zation, which is troubled by his mav-
Although the picture of an
erick approaches, parted ways after
Orthodox rabbi offering spicy advice
the rebbe's death. But his experience
about sex has provoked hostility
at Oxford cemented his resolve to
among members of Britain's rabbinic
write a self-help book.
establishment — Boteach was pres-
He came to the university expect-
ing to teach Judaism, but he found
Rahel Musleah is a New York-based
that students wanted most to talk
freelance journalist. Sandee Brawarsky
about
the pain in their relationships,
contributed to this article.
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