Can Sleeping Be Dangerous?
In the shiur, Rabbi Yaron Reuven discusses the seriousness of wasting seed, even unintentionally during sleep. He emphasizes that it's a grave sin, causing damage and provoking anger in the world. The sages were scared to sleep, showing the magnitude of the issue. The consequences are severe, as highlighted by the story of the sons of Yuda. The shiur also delves into the numerical symbolism related to the Hebrew alphabet. The key message is the need to be mindful and cautious to avoid this sin. To Donate and Support our Kiruv work please visit us at www.BeEzratHaShem.org. If you'd like to invite Rabbi Yaron Reuven or Rabbi Efraim Kachlon to give a lecture at your synagogue, home or office please email Yaron@BeEzratHaShem.org to see availability and make arrangements. Rabbi Yaron Reuven is based out of Florida, but travels around the world to give lectures to different groups. Click here https://soundcloud.com/yaronreuven/sets/daily-chidush To Listen to our very popular "Daily Chidush" short audio series on soundcloud.com Join one of our interactive "Interesting Torah" Whatsapp groups to get daily messages of short Torah clips that can uplift your day by texting the number above. Please join our Facebook page Be'Ezrat HaShem page and join our group "Torah Lessons To Help Our Lives". This Group is solely about publicizing HaShem's holy Torah from my lectures as well as great Rabbi's such as Rabbi Efraim Kachlon, Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, Rabbi Zamir Cohen, Rabbi Pinto, and anyone else that is teaching interesting and relevant Torah. We will also bring you some brand new lectures directly from a Kollel in Jerusalem you won't find anywhere else. Torah posts will be in Hebrew and English. There are plenty of places to find entertaining stories that sound great, but this group is about showing you Torah that can impact your life, hence the name Torah Lessons To Help Our Lives. If it's not impactful, then it won't fit in. I watch and read all that I personally post, so I promise to do my best to bring you only the best quality of Hashem's amazing Torah. The Torah is the only thing in the world that you can learn and have an outcome that makes you SMARTER, WISER, And a BETTER Human Being. If the Torah you're learning is no longer impacting your life in a positive way, than its time for a change. If you haven't learned Torah in a long time or ever, then its time to start friend. I guarantee you will enjoy the journey and life will never be the same, if you just give it a real chance. Kiruv and Kiddush Hashem is our #1 goal. So please feel free to contact me if you are interested in getting more FREE material. We would be have to send you Torach lecture DVDs, CD's and a Book for FREE to anyone that is serious about learning them. If you are far from Hashem and His Torah, our goal is to get help you get closer. Thank you for the opportunity and May Hashem bless you with a life full of Torah #Torah #tikkunhabrit #movie #judaism #jewish #rabbiyaronreuven #lifestyle #addiction #wastingseed #guardyoureyes #modesty #modest #pgamhabrit #Brit #motivation #JewishLife #spirituality #kosher #JewishWisdom #Shabbat #Mitzvah #Faith #JewishCommunity #JewishTradition #Halacha #Teshuva #Talmud #JewishLearning #JewishCulture #emunah #bitachon 00:00:00 Intoduction 00:00:06 Kriyat Shema and Wasting Seed 00:01:28 Unintentional Emission and Its Consequences 00:01:54 Severity of Wasting Seed: Zohar's Perspective 00:02:24 The Image of God and Its Departure 00:02:54 Consequences of Wasting Seed 00:03:26 False Justifications 00:03:55 Better to Have Never Been Born 00:04:23 Repentance for Wasting Seed 00:05:05 Fear of Sleep and Loss of Control 00:05:52 Yirat Shamayim and Constant Vigilance 00:06:49 Torah's View on Wasting Seed
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0:06The Kitvei Arizal and Kava Yashar, chapter 68, state that reciting Kriyat Shema is a significant rectification for the sin of wasting seed, even while sleeping. Many people face this challenge when they, Baruch Hashem, begin doing Teshuva. However, it's not intentional; it occurs when they go to sleep and...
1:28If you're lacking vigilance, seed can emerge through your urine. Recent scientific studies have confirmed that for some individuals, seed is released even during urination. It's not every instance, of course, as it varies from person to person. However, if you don't guard your eyes, it's definitely going to emerge in one manner or another. It's a sin. It's not as grave of a sin as somebody doing it on purpose, but it's definitely not a trivial matter. The Zohar HaKadosh, authored by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, teaches that there's no sin in the world which creates and provokes more anger of the Almighty than the sin of neglecting the Brit. As it says in Leviticus chapter 26 verse 25, "a sword that shall execute the vengeance of the Covenant." person who wastes seed He's bringing anger to the world, to his own personal life, and to the nation, the klal in general. A person that wastes seed, the Tzelem Elokim, the image of God that was put on him when he was created, immediately runs away from him. The only thing that remains is the beast that's in him. He's considered, at that moment, the beast and...
2:54As long as he doesn't do teshuva, he is like one who has no portion in the God of Israel, and it's forbidden to even talk to him, says Zohar Chai, page 377b. Furthermore, he becomes an evil beast, and on each and every hair of his beard, there are 80,000 demons. The repose themselves and call it to me, to me, to me. No, but I keep Shabbos. To me, yeah, but I learned Gemara once or twice a day. To me, but I teach in a yeshiva. To me, that's all going to the sea to ah. Oh.
3:55said that in Eruvin page 37b, it is written it would have been better for him if he would have died in the womb and he never would have emerged into the air of the world. It would have been better for him if his hands were cut off so that he would never commit this evil act. When a person understands the magnitude of the sin, he understands why the sages say it's better for this person to die. It's better for this person to have never come into the world. It's better for this person given the horrible things that he brings to the world. All sins have repentance except for this. which means that charev tshuva are always open, but for all of the other things that you're going to do tshuva for, Hashem will help you. Hashem will help you do tshuva for everything except this: wasting seed. Tshuva for wasting seed is on your own, which is the reason why the Rambam says that doing tshuva for wasting seed is the most difficult part of tshuva.
5:05To almost, it's almost impossible. Not impossible, almost. Meaning, you have to mamash be afraid, terrified, terrified of your own brit milah. Which, by the way, explains why many of the sages, practically all of them, were scared to go to sleep. They did not sleep because they had to learn all the time. They learned al pi Baruch Hashem. But my Rav explained to me that the Arizal, the Gaon of Vilna, David HaMelech himself, they didn't want to go to sleep. They were tired, just like you and me. They were scared to go to sleep. Why? Scared because during sleep, you don't have full control of your body. Yeah, but it's not on purpose. Who cares? It was not on purpose. It still creates damage. I didn't kill him on purpose. He still died. I didn't kill her on purpose. She still died. The outcome is the same. It's not that they didn't want to go to sleep. They were scared to go to sleep. David HaMelech, his Yirat Shamayim never allowed him to sleep more than 15 minutes.
6:20Fifteen minutes, the Gaon, the Vilna Gaon, never slept more than two hours a day in total. But he wouldn't sleep for more than a half hour straight. Why? He would never get into deep sleep because he was scared. I'm not recommending this, but this is to show you how much yirat shamayim (fear of Heaven) they had from the sin, even if accidental. It’s not a pshia (negligence) if done on purpose. We see in the Torah HaKedoshah that a minor is exempt from all punishment except this one, where we see that Er and Onan, the sons of Yehudah, were each seven years old. They were seven years old when they sinned, and Hashem killed them. This is a pasuk in the Torah. Before the written Torah came to the world, they were seven years old! Hashem killed them. In Shalichus L'Shichva, part 2, section 6, a drop of seed is the secret of the 27 letters of the Torah: 22 regular Hebrew letters and the five final letters. What are the odds of that? As it's written in the Kavanot of Tikkun Chatzot...
7:47Now, when a person sins, when a person spills his seed in vain, he's not called a Rasha; he's called Ra. Rasha means wicked, while Ra means evil. Ra has a numerical value of 270, which signifies that when a person spills his seed, there is damage equivalent to that value. This highlights the severity of such an action in the Torah's perspective. Damages tenfold, tenfold, of the 27 letters of the Hebrew alphabet: 22 regular and five ending letters.
