As with all other aspects of life, there is a Jewish way to approach sex, providing a focus and a level of meaning even beyond the ecstatic, physical one.
Jewish tradition considers the sexual act to be extremely holy.
Even sex undertaken without thought to procreation, per se, is a sacred joining of flesh and spirit in which the Godhead itself is understood to participate and become suffused with joy. The central Jewish practice concerning sex is the delineation of time when sex is permissible and when it is prohibited, based on a women's menstrual cycle. Sexual relations are permitted again after the woman herself in a special pool, the mikveh. The result is that a couple's sexual life is marked by periods of abstinence and restraint. First Person One of the things I am truly coming to love about Judaism is its cyclical nature, the way the passing of time is marked from one Shabbat to the next, from sundown to sundown, from holiday to holiday.