Intimacy means that no thing about your spouse is more important than your spouse.

Fixing the world means engaging in an intimate relationship with God.

Well, because without intimacy, life kind of loses its flavor.

And when it loses its flavor, it loses its value.

Intimacy is the goal of every relationship.

Dear young married couple, you're in a busy season of your life.

You're probably working and involved in ministry.

On top of that, you might even be parents or students.

You're maxed, but you really want to stay connected

in your marriage. And that's why we're bringing this podcast to you. I'm Adam King. And I'm

Carissa King, and we work with busy couples just like you in our counseling office here in Sacramento,

California. We also work with couples all over the world through online counseling. And our couples are really just looking for ways to communicate with each other more effectively.

Some of them are looking to heal from a breach and trust or find direction in fulfilling the purpose that God has for them.

So come and join us as we have a conversation. We'll talk with therapists, authors, pastors, and other couples

who will pour into us, giving us tools to become more intimately connected, get adventurous,

and find purpose. Welcome to the Dear Young Married Couple podcast. In this episode, you're going to listen to a conversation

we had with a rabbi on intimacy and the Torah. So we interviewed Rabbi Manus Friedman. He was born in

Prague, Czechoslovakia, and is a Hasidic Jewish rabbi. It was such a fascinating conversation that we had with him

different than any of our other guests we've ever had on. We wanted to prime you because

some of the things that we talk about or that come up in the conversation might be not exactly

what you get from the Bible, but I think that's from a lot of the rabbis I've listened to online. They do

this, I think, to cause conversation, whether that be a jab or just different ways of looking at

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