America’s most famous rabbi is coming to Sydney
Known as “America’s most famous rabbi” and for his best-selling book on kosher sex, Shmuley Boteach is leaving the pillow talk behind him when he comes to Sydney this week.
Known as “America’s most famous rabbi” and for his best-selling book on kosher sex, Shmuley Boteach is leaving the pillow talk behind him when he comes to Sydney this week.
Rabbi Boteach will be speaking in Maroubra and Bondi Junction about modern day anti-Semitism, a departure from the no-holds barred sex talk in his new book Lust for Love, co-authored by Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson.
The New York-based rabbi said the work explores how “desire has been lost between the sexes.”
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“The national average for sex in the US is once a week for seven minutes. I believe in marriages that are passionate … that are both exciting and comforting,” Boteach said.
Aspiring to reignite “sexual practices that lead to intimate connections”, Boteach said he believed lust was needed to prevent distance during lovemaking, and kosher sex was his solution.
“Take for example eyes-open sex … the idea of having your eyes open during this intimate contact so you peer deeply into each other’s souls … kosher sex is all about that deep intimate connection,” Boteach said.
A prominent sex symbol for 30 years, Anderson was the perfect partner for the rabbi’s latest sex guide, but he said “she’s nothing of what people would expect.”
“(As an object of desire) I think she has also learned about the darker side of attraction and how it has to be made healthy again,” Boteach said.
While proposing a “sensual revolution” away from cybersex and pornography, Boteach said the biggest threat to marriage today was “complacency … where we think that relationships just operate on autopilot”.
Boteach, whose wife Debbie is from Sydney, has been visiting Australia for 35 years.
“I find Australians very open-minded about sex and truly eager to improve their relationships.
“I think they’re also justifiably cynical about how sex has been used to market products and how that intimate nature has been lost.”
While believing in Jewish concepts such as “bashert” — the notion everyone has a predestined soulmate — Boteach said it was not necessary to be married to be happy, but he strongly recommended it.
“That’s something I debate with my children all the time. I think you can find a lot of happiness through individual achievement and one’s own company. But I would say you can be a lot happier in marriage … I don’t think there is any substitute for sharing your life with someone,” he said.
Arriving in Sydney this week for a range of appearances, the sex guru will be speaking about a broad range of more serious topics than what followers of his kosher sex philosophy are used to.
Boteach will be speaking at the Maroubra Synagogue (service and dinner booking necessary) on Thursday, February 28, from 8pm. The topic is “The Genocidal War Against Israel: Why the Jews are Hated and Why a Hypocritical World Excuses”.
He will also be speaking at Maroubra Synagogue on Friday, March 1, from 6pm on “The 7 secrets of Jewish success” and at Central Synagogue, Bondi Junction on “Anti-Semitic tsunami 70 years after the holocaust?” on Monday, March 4, at Central Synagogue, Bondi Junction from 7pm.
Boteach recently caused a stir in Poland, where reporters were confused by the kosher sex rabbi’s presence at a conference on Middle East security.
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