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'Kosher Lust': Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Says It's More Important Than Love

By Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service
“Kosher Lust” book cover photo courtesy of Rubenstein PR
May 14, 2014
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Celebrity Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, spiritual counselor to Michael Jackson, onetime Republican candidate for Congress, and author of the best-selling “Kosher Sex” and “Kosher Jesus,” has a new book for Jews and non-Jews alike: “Kosher Lust.”

Its provocative subtitle: “Love Is Not the Answer.”

The answer, Boteach says, is lust, the God-given fuel for a healthy marriage. Love, he argues, cannot sustain marriage, but lust — what he calls the unfairly maligned member of the Seven Deadly Sins — can.

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“Kosher Lust” book cover photo courtesy of Rubenstein PR
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