Pre-Marital Jewish Education
A three-part series of meetings where we explore what Jewish tradition has to offer in terms of rituals for a good marriage.
What is Pre-Marital Jewish Education?
Pre-marital education is a focused series of sessions that helps couples prepare for marriage by exploring communication patterns, conflict resolution, family expectations, intimacy, and shared values.
It’s useful for any couple considering marriage, those engaged, planning to become engaged, remarrieds, or couples from different backgrounds who want to strengthen their relationship, identify potential challenges early, and build practical tools for a durable partnership.
“Although sex is certainly not the whole of life, it is an important part of it, and so it should be part of the discussion that we Jews have about the norms by which we live. The Jewish tradition has much to say about this area of life, as it does about most, and much of what it says is as compelling to us now as it was to our ancestors. Judaism has a distinctly positive view toward sexuality as the gift of God, and it articulates values and rules for this area of life which make it the pleasurable, yet holy, activity it was meant to be.”
— Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff
“This Is My Beloved, This Is My Friend: A Rabbinic Letter on Intimate Relations,” Rabbinical Assembly Commission on Human Sexuality, 1996