I. Israel: am, goy. But at beginning: mishpahah. Stability Jewish family (despite silly jokes). Now: divorce, alcoholism, delinquency, and inter-marriage. Story: Who needs a home? Now have to add: New morality. Two versions or components: a) Hugh Heffner – Playboy – “bunnies”; b) Sex community – personalistic and anti-tradition. II. Heffner: bachelor morality – “cool,” impersonal, woman inferior: depersonalized to “thing.”III. Morality: based on home, family, marriage. Talmud: every successful marriage a triangle – She…

Permit me to share with you a psychological reaction that is fairly prevalent. Recall the last time you were engaged in a conversation with a strong-minded person. The firmer he is in his ideas, the more brash in expressing them, the more opinionated and self-assured – the weaker you become in articulating your own, opposing ideas, and the more equivocal in maintaining your own position. It happens to the best of us: when our own delicate and refined feelings are confronted with a person possessed of infallible certainty, our lesser confidence is overwhelmed and almo…