Shmuley Boteach – författare

An unlikely pair of voices-the world's most recognizable beauty icon and "America's rabbi"-comes together to diagnose how meaningful, passionate sex is on the decline in Western culture, and what is necessary to save it. Sex is dying in America. Inundated with sex and starved for it, obsessed with it yet clueless about it, we are slowly forgetting how to make love. The crisis of modern sexuality is seen in high divorce rates, in the degradation of sexuality through pornography, and tasteless displays of empty, counterfeit erotica. Most of all, it's seen in sexless marriages and platonic relationships where cybersex has become more addictive than the real thing. Sex has become so trivialized, coarsened, and vulgarized that couples no longer feel its pull. The once powerful and irresistible magnetism of sex is being diluted and drained.The authors propose replacing the 1960s' sexual revolution with a new sensual revolution, a rediscovery of intimacy that encourages and ennobles human relationships, elevates healthy lust, and gets us from looking up from the glowing screens of our smartphones to the people around us, most especially the people we love the most. LUST FOR LOVE embraces the idea that what our most important relationships need most is lust. It is necessary to rediscover what's sexy again, how to bring back romance, and to understand that in addition to love, we need lust to repair our unfulfilling sex lives and broken relationships. LUST FOR LOVE proposes a return to what lovemaking was always meant to be: a desire to know and experience another person in the deepest possible way.

Great sex consists entirely of motions, Kosher Sex consists of motions that elicit lasting emotions. Great sex is an undertaking of two separate bodies, Kosher Sex is two halves of the same whole. Twenty-five years ago, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's celebrated international bestseller Kosher Sex changed how we view and approach sex, marriage, erotic attraction, and personal relationships by drawing on traditional Jewish wisdom. Based on his extensive experience counseling individuals and couples, the author breaks down sexual taboos and openly yet respectfully discusses the meanings, emotions, and hidden power of sex. With his unique anecdotal style, Rabbi Boteach illustrates each and every point, using real couples who have discovered the joys of "kosher sex"—sex that blends passion and lovers—and suggests revolutionary ways of synthesizing the best that each has to offer. When half of all marriages fail and one third are sexless and platonic, Kosher Sex has an astonishing and electrifying impact.

With the publication of his runaway bestseller Kosher Sex, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach gained instant fame as a sage and savvy commentator on public and private life. Now he turns his outspoken energy and vast erudition to the core teachings of Judaism itself. During his years as Rabbi of Oxford University and founder of the university's Jewish outreach organization, the L'Chaim Society, Boteach began to realize how well-matched the foundational beliefs of Judaism are to the broad human needs of the modern world. Unlike the dualist credo of other religions—in which the material and spiritual are always in conflict—the Jewish faith uniquely represents a spiritual philosophy concerned about life in this world, rather than in the hereafter. In Judaism for Everyone, this most unorthodox of orthodox rabbis explores the Jewish and Biblical origins of civilization's seminal moral ideas and presents Judaism as a program of action for people of all faiths. Boteach's interpretations and commentary are a vibrant celebration of the dynamism that is Judaism. Whether he's peppering his points with stories from his childhood, promoting feminism, decrying boredom, or extolling the virtues of leisure and solitude, Shmuley Boteach never fails to inform, inspire, and surprise. Judaism for Everyone is for anyone who seeks a universal moral creed to maximize human goodness and inner potential.

In 2000–2001, Michael Jackson sat down with his close friend and spiritual guide, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, to record what turned out to be the most intimate and revealing conversations of his life. It was Michael’s wish to bare his soul and unburden himself to a public that he knew was deeply suspicious of him. The resulting thirty hours are the basis of The Soul of Michael Jackson. There has never been, and never will be, anything like them. In these searingly honest conversations, Michael exposes his emotional pain and profound loneliness, his longing to be loved, and the emptiness of his fame. You discover why he was suspicious of women and how only children provided the innocence for which he so desperately longed. In his own words, he takes us into the jarring moments of his childhood and speaks of the measures he took to try and heal. He divulges how he came to be alienated from his strong religious anchor and describes his views on the nature of faith. Michael brings us into his tortured yet loving relationship with his siblings. He opens up about his father and his yearning for a time when they might finally reconcile. He talks about his most personal friendships and shares with us his terror of growing old. Despite his unprecedented fame and recent death, there remain unanswered questions about his life. The answers, presented here in The Soul of Michael Jackson, will both intrigue and move you. You will be surprised, riveted, and troubled as you peer into the soul of a tragic icon whose life is an American morality tale and whose flame was extinguished much too early.

Comeback Nation: How Israel Annihilated Its Adversaries in a Seven-Front War for Survival is a chronicle of Israel’s fight for survival after October 7, 2023—a day that changed Israel forever. As Hamas unleashed a barbarism unseen since the darkest chapters of Jewish history, Israel was thrust into war against those determined to erase the Jewish state. Drawing on history, theology, battlefield analysis, and morality, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Mendy Boteach trace how Israel rallied its people, reclaimed its strength, and struck back with devastating precision against enemies who mistook restraint for weakness.From biblical archetypes of holy struggle to modern asymmetric warfare, Comeback Nation argues that Israel’s victory over the terrorists was not only military, but spiritual: the rediscovery of the Jewish will to fight and prevail. This examination of what happens when a nation chooses life and victory over the demands of the world—demands that it surrender to terror—is a declaration that the Jewish people are done apologizing for living, and that they are finished asking permission to win.

What if antisemitism is sustained not only by prejudice, but by loneliness, sexual shame, sexual deviance, and the breakdown of human intimacy?In Kosher Sex for Antisemites, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, author of the epoch-defining international blockbuster Kosher Sex offers a sweeping and unconventional interpretation of one of history’s oldest hatreds, arguing that cultures unable to reconcile desire with dignity often turn outward in resentment, conspiracy, and blame. Drawing on Jewish thought, history, biography, and contemporary cultural criticism, he explores how the erosion of intimacy and the rise of sexual shame and deviance in an age saturated with pornography can harden into social violence.Across a wide range of historical periods, from the medieval to the modern, Rabbi Shmuley traces recurring links among misogyny, repression, alienation, and hatred of Jews, while at the same time offering a counterpoint that illustrates how Judaism’s understanding of sex is not shameful or trivial, but sanctified, covenantal, and bound to responsibility, joy, and mutual care. Purely original and comprehensive, Kosher Sex for Antisemites shows antisemitism from a new perspective while making a broader case for cultural repair. Rabbi Shmuley argues that the answer to hatred cannot be political language alone but must also include stronger marriages, more intimate unions, greater passion in relationships, deeper community, and a renewed confidence in life, love, and human dignity. The result is an electrifying book that speaks not only to the persistence of antisemitism but to the conditions under which a healthier and more life-affirming civilization might still be rebuilt.