LEV835 The exact opposite of loving, marital companionship is adultery. Adultery is prohibited by the seventh of the captain Commandments, and adultery and incest are together treated as one of the three prohibitions that, according to the Talmud, a person is not to violate even on pain of losing one's life. (45) indeed, the Torah prescribes the death penalty for both men and women involved in adultery; (46) and if for some reason that punishment is not carried out, the Talmud maintains that a woman who committed adultery is forbidden to both her husband and her Paramore--that is, she may not continue in her marriage and she may not marry her lover.) 47) test the Jewish tradition clearly for bad adultery in the strictest of terms. Even though I know of no conservative or orthodox rabbinic ruling that is reversed this time music stance, and practice rabbis often find ways to maintain that the adultery has not been legally established so that they can pursue efforts to have a couple reconcile, especially if the couple has young children. Sometimes these efforts are successful, and they certainly should be pursued. Divorce, as I discussed below, always brings with it pains of its own for both a couple and for any children involved.
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