Tidbits from a Tishbite
"In sex, men empty themselves. They give something that forms and fills a void. They hover over the formless, virgin ground and say, âlet it bring forth living things.â They sow a seed into the earth that âmust die before it brings forth much fruit.â It is not for nothing that ancient cultures thought of Heaven as masculine and Earth as feminine.
A woman--who was taken out of man--reunites with him in a more voluntary--and thus profound--fashion. She magnifies glory through her receiving and giving back nine months later. Everything in a man that is nascent and unfinished becomes incarnate reality in a woman. In her, the dark materials of creation become mature and "very good."
Together a couple brings into existence âicons of their love.â They make new beings who bear both of their images. They become âone fleshâ in the most literal sense imaginable. The flesh, bone, hair, eyes, and (if you are a traducian) souls of their children are a perfect combination of their parents. Your child, in whose face you can clearly see both yours and your wifeâs, is a living testimony of love. Who else but God would ordain the creation of new people through such a means?"