{"id":2165,"date":"2008-02-07T14:56:56","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T22:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2008-02-07T21:24:38","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T05:24:38","slug":"the-jewish-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2165","title":{"rendered":"The Jewish Bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hirhurim.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/position-of-bed.html\">Rabbi Ari Enkin writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>According to halacha it is forbidden to position one&#8217;s bed in a way that it stretches from east to west but rather it must run north-south.[2] This halacha originates from the Gemara[3] which teaches that it is best to position one&#8217;s bed that it run from north to south as doing so accompanies with it a number of benefits as we will see. It is explained by the commentators that this directive of how to place one&#8217;s bed applies to those who are married and at those times when one&#8217;s wife will be sleeping with him.[4] Even when alone however it is best to sleep in such a position,[5] especially if one sleeps naked.[6] There are also a number of additional recommended positions for the placement of the limbs of one&#8217;s body when sleeping as well.[7] Nevertheless, if for whatever reason one is unable to position oneself or one&#8217;s bed in a north-south arrangement one need not &quot;loose sleep&quot; over it. In fact, it would even be permissible to have relations with one&#8217;s wife in an east-west direction if need be.[8]<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Ari Enkin writes: According to halacha it is forbidden to position one&#8217;s bed in a way that it stretches from east to west but rather it must run north-south.[2] This halacha originates from the Gemara[3] which teaches that it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2165\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judaism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}