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As sundown approaches, I leave you with this inspirational story from Australia’s The Age: 

On holy day of love, Jewish men enthusiastically embrace their moral duty
Jason Koutsoukis, Jerusalem
August 16, 2008

WHAT makes a Jewish man smile on Friday evenings? The tranquillity of the sabbath, when families gather around the dining table for a traditional meal. The candle lighting. The blessings. But there is something else: perhaps God’s double mitzvah – literally, double “commandment” – that a man make love to his wife not just that night, but throughout the next day. It may be the holy day’s most important precept.

“This is an expression of moral values,” says Lubavitch Rabbi Mendel Deren, who is based in the Old City of Jerusalem. “And by moral values, I mean that a man’s duty to make love requires him to think not about what his own body wants, but the responsibility he has to care about his wife and her feelings. It’s an act of love.”

You can read the rest of the story here (if you’re 18 or over, that is).