Premarital Sex Equals Marriage

From the email “Today’s Mitzvah” at chabad.org - "When a man takes a wife and is intimate with her"—Deuteronomy 24:1

Below, please find “Kiddushin is accomplished through one of three methods - c) Through a man being intimate with her.”

Premarital sex is a lie.  If pop culture considered intimacy to result in a marital bond as it is understood in Torah, then the world would be a better place.  There would not be as many broken hearts, or unwanted pregnancies if we put an end to this lie.  Let’s get away from the “premarital” sex idea, and claim that there is no such thing as premarital sex.

The theoretical existence of premarital sex is a great lie propagated by media and corporations that use sex in advertisements in order to sell products.

I am not encouraging more sex among people that cannot afford marriages.  Teenage sex often results in unwanted pregnancies where there is not enough pressure for protective commitment.  Commitment of all of society is necessary to protect young ladies.  Yes, the pressure is to protect young ladies to a greater extent because young women have the most to lose from unwanted pregnancy!  This is something many young ladies fail to understand, probably a consequence of unrealistic idealism.

Part of the email itself:

Positive Commandment 213
Marriage

"When a man takes a wife and is intimate with her"—Deuteronomy 24:1

It is a mitzvah for a man to marry a woman through kiddushin. Kiddushin is accomplished through one of three methods: a) The man giving the women an object of value [for the purpose of marriage]. b) The man giving the woman a marriage contract [a document upon which is written, "With this document I am marrying you"]. c) Through the man being intimate with the woman.

For The Love of Justice, Prepare a Temple for Hashem

In Exodus, G-d presents Himself through Moses as one who has come to bring judgment to the Egyptians.  The Haggadah recounts the joy of the Jews; as with each successive plague that is unleashed on the Egyptians the Jews become closer to freedom.

Hashem came to us in Egypt as a Savior, but the converse of that is that it was the time for the judgment of Egypt.  The day of the Lord had come, fire and brimstone style for the Egyptian people, as it comes today for those who dare oppress the His people.

While we look to Gd as a redeemer, without that idea of a just and wrathful G-d, Judaism could never be; our hearts would not have been prepared to receive Him in His glory.

G-d listens for the cry of the oppressed, and the oppressed are redeemed to prosperity through harkening to His voice like Sheparded sheep.  These are the people, His sheep who are regarded for the slaughter today, and those are His people whom need to build a receptacle, a Temple, for Him in Israel.  Our Temple is to be our receptacle for Him, prepared for Him in order to tip the scales of justice in favor of those gone astray, but long to be His.

May no righteous person ever need to cry again the words of David, “My G-d, why have you forsaken me?”  So, may we gather the nations? - including all of those who want to help prevent the slaughter of Gd’s people.

On My Experience: Hearing the Voice of G-d

Exodus 20:19. "...Moses would speak and God would answer him with a voice." I literally heard the amazingly resonant voice of the Lord G-d say, "I AM punishing you," meaning me in particular, ~2,000 CE.

My response was similar to that of David in Psalm 22:2 "My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?..." but I asked it in a different way. I said, "Why are you punishing me?" to the Almighty G-d.

Why was I so audacious before the Lord? Because I was as low as a worm! I couldn't remember to eat and bathe. If I was any lower, I would have been dead.

When the Lord spoke to me it was unlike anything I had ever heard before. Upon hearing the speech of the Lord, I instantaneously changed from atheist to believer. I oriented my entire life to give praise to G-d.

To seek out G-d, I transferred from Rutgers to Gordon College, a Protestant school, but I found myself trying to hide my actual beliefs, which are not Christian, but what Judaism teaches.