Sadness & Depression Effects on Soul

0:32Having joy is not a recommendation; it's a must. Why? Because a person should be careful not to be sad or even sigh, not even have the "ah." Don't say "man," don't even do that. Why? Sadness and sighing cause impurity, cause tumah, and provide an opening for who? For the Satan's wife, who is in charge of wasting seed and... When a person is sad, he's adopting her ways; he gives her power to do as she desires with him, because he becomes hers, in so many words. She defiles him because he belongs to her and...

1:52It says in Genesis chapter 1 verse 11. It's from Avodah Zarah, the grass that brings forth seed. Don't read it as to serve, rather it is active. Its meaning is sadness. Sadness brings seed. The Seder Olam on page 37b says this is even more interesting. he thirsts if his thirst was not satisfied by this. This issue of wasting seed gets worse over time. Why? Because once his thirst is not satisfied by wasting seed, he goes on to have homosexual or incestuous relations, and little by little, the abomination against God continues to grow. Same thing that I mean, Rabbi Abish said when a person damages their brit, the level of Yesod, the foundation of...

3:06Damaged and the sitra achra takes from this person all of his Torah and all of his mitzvot. You just worked your whole life — 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, 50 years, 60 years. Mitzvot you had in a weak moment... You had a weak moment. You just went to a woman you know you are not allowed to be with, or you did it by yourself. All of the mitzvot, all of the Torah, everything you ever did for 60 years is gone. Where does it go? Sitra achra. You just gave everything you've worked for your whole life to Satan himself, Hashem Yerachem. Is it worth it for five seconds of pleasure? Forget the punishment. You just lost your entire reward. You go up to Shamayim and they say, "No, so what kind of mitzvot do you have?" "What do you mean? I learned in yeshiva, I went to kollel, I went to this." "Sorry." There's nothing here. What do you mean nothing here? I went. I had a yeshiva. No, nothing here. If you want, we can check the Satan's cheshbon. We'll check his cheshbon. Maybe you're there. Maybe you're over there on that list.

4:19Nisho, look at you. Yeah, you did go to that kollel. Yeah, you did finish the Shas. Wow, nice. Oh, sorry. It doesn't belong to you anymore. It doesn't belong. Remember when you were 52 years old and you didn't want to listen, and you did this, this, and that for five seconds of pleasure? Remember that? Okay, that's it. It all happened. That's it. So there's no... It's not that Hashem is looking for a way to punish you. You have no reward. You lost it. It's gone. Bye. Is it worth it? Needless to say, the punishment that comes to the person. Rabbi Yossi says in the Gemara Masechet Niddah page 13a, a person that wastes seed is considered an idol worshiper. Lopa, God forbid, below you tell why, because when you waste seed, it's the same exact action as the people that worship idols do or satanic people. They either bring seed from their seed or they bring blood. Same thing. Blood is actually even less of an essence of the person than the seed is. That's where you see all these satanic, sick people; they bring seed or blood for their idolatry.

5:32Person who falsifies the covenant of circumcision, meaning he gambles, causes the Shechinah, which is the unity of the Holy One, blessed be He, to abandon him. This is replaced by a demon who rules over the person. Tikkunei Zohar, Tikkun 21, the Zohar HaKadosh, Parashat Pekudei, page 263b, says there exists a celestial being called Pottot. And he induces people to look at forbidden places. There's a specific Yetzer Hara that tries to encourage you to look at all the places you're not allowed to look at, as men or as women. Where is there a need to look there? Why did you look at that dress? For what purpose? Were you planning to purchase a dress for yourself? What is the reason for looking at the dress? Why are you looking at the woman? Is she your wife? No, she is not your wife. Why are you observing his daughter? Were you going to marry her? No. Why are you looking at all these things? There's an angel whose job is to try and distract you, saying, no, no, look here. Look here, look here, look here, look here, look here. Constantly. After the person dies, Hashem, it is said that...

6:43When a person is already buried, this same angel Poteach comes to the grave and puts the neshama back into the body. After they dig the grave even deeper, they put the neshama back into the body to raise him up. And the first thing they do is break the bones surrounding this person's eyes and take them out. Afterwards, they judged the person with heavy and severe lashes and judgment. God save us. Kav HaYashar, chapter 2. Why the eyes? Because the eyes were the beginning of all the sins. If you do well, shall you not be accepted? And if you do not, sin lies below. Sin lies at the entrance, Hashem says to Kayin. It says this verse is referring to an opening. If you leave an opening for the yetzer hara, he'll take over you. This means don't just think that because you overcame this sin, it's finished. No, no, don't even leave an opening. Don't even go to that place ever again. But the Zohar HaKadosh says no, it's not just about this opening of not going back; there's an opening in your body and...

8:09An opening in your body that if you don't watch it, if you don't guard it, all the sins in the world will come from it. Like what the Gemara Beitza says: for a little pleasure lasting a mere quarter of an hour, a person can lose this world and the next. And he says depression, anxiety. People always take all these pills, Xanax, Percocets, whatever things are over-the-counter, off the counter, in the counter, whatever they can get themselves. Legal or illegal is irrelevant anymore because the legal is poisoned. The illegal apparently is not. Who knows what's going on in the world today? People take all this stuff. Why? They're all depressed. They're all anxious. They all have no idea what's going on. There's a very, very simple reason. Why? Why? says that depression and anxiety are the main causes of sexual immorality.