The Scientist That Proved That Wasting Seed Is Murder (8 Minutes)

1:33Someone who's awake has to move their body and have intimacy with their wife in order for seed to be released from their body. Something has to happen; a natural human being can't just have seed come out of their body without any cause. However, somehow this can happen when we are sleeping. How? It's due to the demons you created. They now go to work at night. And for anyone that's still not sure if wasting seed is really that big of a sin or it's not, we had a whole, Baruch Hashem, couple of really big shiurim about it, but there's a nice chiddush I can give you about it. And this chiddush is only about 70 years old. In the 1960s, there was a scientist by the name of Cleve Backster. And Cleve Backster

2:34got famous. He worked with the polygraph, which is the lie detector test. But he gained fame by adopting a unique approach with his polygraph. Instead of solely using it to determine if people were lying, he connected the sensors to plants to see if these plants are stimulated in any way if there's anything there. And interestingly enough, he found out that there's a secret life to the plants. To such an extent that the plants are able to communicate with each other, with other species, and even with human beings. They're able to read our minds. How did he know this? So he connected it with a plant, And you see the reaction. Based on the reaction and how the polygraph moves, he compares it to a human reaction. So, for example, when a polygraph makes, let's say, I'll just give you a hypothetical example, makes a really big, you know, three lines, that's equivalent to a human being stressed out. When it makes three small lines, that is the equivalent of a human being being happy. And again, these are hypothetical examples; these are not actual examples of a polygraph.

4:01but just for the purpose of understanding. So he saw that when he thought something positive about the plant, like "Oh, what a beautiful plant," the plant actually had a polygraph move in a way that indicated happiness. But when his friend came in, His friend, who didn't know what was going on, came into his office. As soon as his friend entered the office, he looked at his plant, and the plant immediately started showing signs of serious, serious sadness. He asked his friend, "What are you thinking right now? Tell me right now what you're thinking, because I need to know the truth. I just think that my plant's much nicer than yours." And the plant was able to read his mind, and he was offended by it. There's a book called "The Secret Life of Plants." An interesting book, it talks about this research that Cleve Backster did in the 1960s and 70s. He conducted research for 40 years. What does this have to do with our subject at hand? It is that over the next 40 years, he didn't just spend his time with plants.

5:20He also started testing different things to see if other things would have any type of reaction. One of them was seed, semen. He wanted to see if the semen of a human being is alive or not. He put that same sensor on semen to see if there was a reaction. And according to his reports, as soon as the owner entered the room, as soon as the person that wasted that seed walked into the room, the seed reacted as if a child sees his father. So for anyone that thinks, oh no, listen, it's only, you know, you have 300 million seeds, statistically speaking, that come out during an average ejaculation, and only one of them has the potential to create a baby. So that means that, 299,999,999 are a waste. They're dead anyway. No, my friend, they were all alive. They just didn't have the skill of being alive and coming in. But now that you've wasted them, each one of them turns into a demon who is going to join you. It's gonna be right there. You can't see him, but he's right next to you.

6:44He's the one that's stressing you out. He's the one that's trying to encourage you to make a sin. He's the one that's trying to encourage you to do it again. He's the one that's trying to encourage you to be Mechalel Shabbat. He's the one that's making you tired in the middle of a shiur Torah. He's the one that's telling you to cheat on your wife. He's the one that's telling you all the bad things. He's the one that's stimulating you. But he's also the one that Hashem is going to be very, very angry to see you fail to bring children into the world properly and responsibly. And the reason why he's going to be very upset is because he'll question, "Why didn't you bring me into the world? I was one of those seeds. Why didn't you bring me into existence?" This is why there's actually a minhag, still observed to this day, particularly in Jerusalem. This custom dictates that a father who is to be buried is not permitted to have his sons carry and bury him, because, chas v'shalom, if he wasted seed even once in his life, it implies that his living children could be at risk. So this is both spiritually proven, and now you have another scientific proof. And if you want more scientific proofs, just watch the three-hour lecture that we did in New York. Baruch Hashem, it had a lot of success, and many Talmidei Yeshiva have learned from this lecture and, Baruch Hashem, have done teshuva as a result. The reason why I specifically mentioned Talmidei Yeshiva is because to tell this to a secular person...

8:10It's a chidush. Because they didn't even know they were supposed to keep Shabbat in this generation. They thought that driving on Shabbat is okay as long as they're relaxing. When you're secular, you don't know anything. But when you're religious, and no one's ever taught you that wasting seed is one of the top three biggest sins in Judaism, it's troubling. You've been going to yeshiva your whole life, but no one's ever told you that it's considered at the worst level in Gehinnom. It's the worst possible thing you can do. It destroys you in this world and the next world, and so on and so forth. It's a pretty big thing to miss.