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Why can’t a woman wear jeans?

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There are two problems with women wearing pants. One involves the Torah prohibition of wearing the clothes of the opposite sex, and the second involves modesty.

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According to Jewish Law, what’s the problem with a woman wearing red clothing?

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It could be that if Little Red Riding Hood had been more modest and walked in the woods in less flashy colors, she never would have attracted the attention of the wolf.

Question: Don’t you think that over-emphasizing sex is making a mountain out of a mole hill?

Answer: They scoffed at Noach too! They ridiculed him. They laughed. No one paid any attention to his warnings. For 120 years, he worked on building the ark, so that people would pass by and ask what he was doing, giving them a chance to repent.

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I think you place too much emphasis on sexuality. What does it have to do with Israel or the Jewish People?

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Sexuality has everything to do with Israel and the Jewish People. Mankind’s first transgression, which brought about man’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden, resulted from Adam and Eve’s misusing the holy sexual energy that G-d had placed in the world.

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The advice you have suggested in some of your other Q&As for overcoming sexual fantasies has helped me a great deal in the ongoing battle. In addition to things like keeping busy, avoiding depression, going to the mikvah, guarding my eyes, and increasing Torah learning, is there some Kabbalistic formula that I can recite that will give me some extra heavy ammunition?

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Why do Kabbalists emphasize the recital of "Tikunim" like the "Tikun HaKlali?"

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I am 32. For several years I have been looking for a wife, but it never gets anywhere because I don’t feel any strong desire to be with women. I confided this to a friend, and he took me to a group meeting with men who have homosexual leanings, and who are learning to be proud. Apparently, this is my situation too. Is there anything I can do to strengthen my attraction to the opposite sex so that I will be able to marry? 

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I am a 34-year-old single woman with a few pre-marital relationships behind me and some other things I probably shouldn’t have done. I don’t know if there is a connection, but I suffer from anxiety and depression, headaches, and general irritability. Any advice?

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I think your emphasis on the importance of “Shovavim” (6 straight weeks beginning with the Torah reading of Shmot - mid-January) with its fasts and tikunim [rectifications] is off the mark. Regarding a person who has an accidental emission of semen (keri) on the night of Yom Kippur, the Mishna Berurah states that the rectification is to increase Torah study and good deeds, that if the person was accustomed to learning a page of Gemara a day, he should now learn two. Why do you make such a big deal over Kabbalistic prayers that the Mishna Berurah doesn’t even mention?

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Me and my boyfriend are both sixteen. We hold hands, sit on park benches and kiss, and fool around with our clothes on in his house when no one else is home, but we never do the real thing. If I protest, he insists we aren’t doing anything wrong, but I have a guilty conscience anyway. Who’s right?