The Arameic texts of the Babylonian Talmud tell the story {Actually it is Dr. Gafni’s embellishment of the core story} of a man, who comes home, and finds his wife naked in the bedroom. There are cookies on the stand by the bed. The man is hungry; he reaches for a cookie, but suddenly the voice of the milkman cries out from the closet, Don’t eat it, it’s poisonous!” The legal question in the Talmud: Is the milkman an adulterer or not?
What is the psycho-spiritual message teaching underling this story? Why is there is a strange attraction in transgressive behaviour? Why does, at first blush, a boundary breaking sexuality seem to have more powerful psycho-sexual energy, then classical married sexuality? What does the nature of sexuality have to do with the fall of the temple?