Namoro
O namoro cristão deve ser vivido com sabedoria, pureza e propósito. A Bíblia orienta sobre escolher um cônjuge, guardar o coração e honrar a Deus em todo relacionamento.
Guardar o coração
Sobre tudo o que se deve guardar, guarda o teu coração, porque dele procedem as fontes da vida. O namoro exige vigilância e sabedoria.
Set watch over and guard thy lev with all diligence;
for out of it are the totze’ot chayyim (issues, wellsprings of life).
Do not become unequally yoked with koferim (unbelievers), for what shuttafut (partnership) has Tzedek with Lawlessness? Or where is the Brit (Covenant) between Ohr (light) and Choshech (darkness)? And what harmony does Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach have with B’liya’al? Or what chelek (allotment, inheritance) has a ma’amin with an Apikoros?
Can shnayim walk together,
except they be agreed?
Do not fall under a delusion. "Bad chavrusashaft (association, influence or hashpa’ah) corrupts good midos."
Pureza e santidade
O corpo é templo do Espírito Santo. A Bíblia nos chama a fugir da imoralidade e esperar no amor com paciência e respeito mútuo.
Flee zenut! "Every chet is outside the body," [you say]. But the one guilty of zenut commits chet against the body itself. Or have you no da’as that your body is a Heikhal Hashem of the Ruach Hakodesh in you, whom you have from Hashem, and you are not your own? For [the Geulah redemption of] you [from the Golus of Chet] was purchased with a price; therefore, bring kavod to Hashem with your gufot.
"Okhel (food) for the stomach and the stomach for okhel, but Hashem will destroy both one and the other;" but the body is not for zenut but for Hashem, and Hashem for the body.
But if they do not have shlitah atzmi, let them marry. For better it is to marry than with Eish to be set ablaze.
I charge you, O banot Yerushalayim,
that ye arouse nor awake HaAhavah (the Love)
till it pleases.
Let the marriage Chuppah have respect in the eyes of all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for those guilty of gilui arayot (sexual immorality) and no’afim (adulterers), Hashem will judge.
A esposa prudente vem do Senhor
Deus criou o homem e a mulher para completarem-se. A casa e os bens são herança dos pais, mas a esposa prudente vem do Senhor.
And Hashem Elohim said, It is not tov that the adam should be alone; I will make him an ezer (a helper) suitable for him.
Bais and hon (wealth) are the nachalah avot,
and a prudent isha (wife) is from Hashem.
And to all these things add ahavah, which is the agudah of tamimim.