Wasting Seed- What Does God Say About it? (12 Minutes)

0:10When Hashem says you're not allowed to spill blood, He wasn't just referring to murder. After the flood and how Hashem destroyed the world, Hashem gave the mitzvot to Noach. In chapter 9, verse 6, it says, "Shofech dam ha'adam ba'adam, damo yishafech, ki b'tzelem Elohim asah ha'adam." Translation, whoever sheds the blood of a man, within a man, his blood will be spilled. Because in the image of God, He made man. So blood of a man, we understand it's blood. But what's the blood of a man within the man?

1:12If it was just blood of a man, he would just say blood of a man. Blood of a man, within the man, we know it's the tamtsit. It's the syrup. Seed. When he spills blood, his blood will be spilled. This goes all the way back to Noach. Proof? Fast forward. Bereishit. Bereishit. Parashat Vayeshev, chapter 38. The story was the first story I heard about the Torah when I started doing Teshuvah from Rav Ephraim: the story of Yehuda and Tamar. One of the areas that we learn about Mashiach, by the way. But originally, Yehuda and Tamar were not together, and... Originally, Tamar was married to one of Judah's sons, Er, who was his firstborn. Vayehi Er, bechor Yehuda, ra be'einei Hashem, vayemitehu Hashem.

2:38But Er, Judah's first son, was evil in the eyes of Hashem, and Hashem caused him to die. Next verse. Vayomer Yehuda l'Onan, "Bo el eshet achicha, v'yabem otah v'haqem zera l'achicha." V'yeda Onan ki lo lo yihiyeh hazera. Then Judah said to Onan, "Consort with your brother's wife. You know, Onan was his second son. Marry your brother's wife because there were no kids. It's actually a mitzvah." enter into a levirate marriage with her and establish offspring for your brother. But Onan knew that the seed would not be his, meaning that the son would not be his; he considered his brother's. So whenever he would consort with his brother's wife, he would let it go to waste on the ground.

4:02a.k.a. bathroom, so as not to provide offspring for his brother. What he did was evil in the eyes of Hashem, and He caused him to die also. Chazal say that Er appreciated the beauty of Tamar so much that he didn't want to ruin her beauty by having her get pregnant. No, so for you, I'm just going to keep you pretty, but I'm just going to be with you. So you waste seed outside of her body. I don't want to have kids, like today's generation. No, no, I only have one kid already. It's enough. We can't afford a second kid. Hashem ran out of money. No, we have two kids and we got a dog. We can't. Maybe we're going to think we're considering a cat also. Kid? No, we can't afford a kid with the yeshiva prices today. Huh? A nuclear family. So Er wasted seed. As Hashem told Noach, not allowed to waste seed. In that generation it wasn't too difficult to know that Hashem existed. Hashem killed him. Maybe we're going to think we're considering a cat also. Kid? No, we can't afford a kid with yeshiva prices today. A nuclear family. So Er wasted seed. As Hashem told Noach, it's not allowed to waste seed. In that generation, it wasn't too difficult to know that Hashem existed. Hashem killed him.

5:27Onan didn't want to have kids with Tamar because it wouldn't be considered his child. He said, "What do I do it for? I want to keep her pretty also. She's a very beautiful woman. I don't want to ruin her body. I want her to look like she's 20 forever." Okay. Enjoy. Hashem killed him also. This is also a source of why Goyim are also not allowed to waste seed. Because at this point, we don't have Judaism. Noach, 12 tribes, they're not considered Jewish. They're Bnei Noach. Judaism was born at Mount Sinai. So here we have ourselves some Torah sources of why wasting seed is a problem. What else does Chazal say?

6:31As we mentioned before, each time someone commits a sin, they create a demon. Chazal say that human fluids, especially, provide substance for demonic forces. It is for this reason that many satanic rituals require semen or blood. Most people who are crazy enough to worship the Satan usually have to spill blood or semen for it. Why? Because those things, the spilling of seed, create them. Now, you also tend to see that people who waste seed have a tough time learning. Here's a source. Part of the seminal fluid comes from the brain. This is sent down the spine. When a person spills seed, he is wasting away part of his brain. This lowers the function of the brain, especially memory. You can learn the Gemara 8,000 times, you're still not going to remember it.

7:37Just like Rav Avraham Stern said, the more seed you use, the softer your body becomes. And some of his patients, the zava, the disgusting nature that they got to, after wasting seed, in some cases, for only six months, doing it four or five times a day for six months, literally made them, yeah, I know, it's crazy, but to a teenager, it doesn’t seem like a crazy thing. doing it a few times a day for six months doesn't seem like a long time. The person completely became crippled, eventually being found on the floor with blood coming out of every hole of his body. In another case, a person that was wasting seed for about two years, only about twice a day, only twice a day, for about two years, according to a different doctor, this is not even Dr. Stern, it's just in that book, Dr. Zimmerman, said that he came to him completely in pain, suffering unknown pain. The doctor understood that this is from wasting seed. He forced him to stop and he watched him, he oversaw him. He healed after several months and got strong again. A young 18-year-old boy went back to it. Six months later, he was dead. His brain dried up.

9:07Cases get worse and worse. In many cases, people become crippled and have different types of disgusting fluids coming out of their bodies. In some cases, they even lose control of their own seed or, even if they want to stop, they can't; it just comes out. This is scientific, not religious. Yet, a person's emotions are thrown totally out of balance. People who are pogem brit often have a hard time controlling their temper and They're also subject to sadness and depression and lose their self-confidence. Anyone that wasted seed, this is like looking in the mirror. People who are Pogem HaBrit are also always tired and need more sleep. More often than not, they have bad body odor and breath. They also, according to the Rambam, bald prematurely.

10:09Their hair growth starts in strange places, and their body becomes very weak. When you were 18 years old, strong, you're supposed to be able to lift a building. The guy can barely make it to the store. Someone who is Pogem Brit loses almost all of his ability to perceive Kedusha. One also loses his desire to study Torah and do mitzvot. If you still have a desire to do mitzvot, it means, Baruch Hashem, Hashem has a lot of mercy on you, but you have to stop immediately. The souls brought down through the person's sins are also considered his children. After a person dies, these souls come to take revenge against their father, causing him many problems. In addition, They also come after his physical children to try to harm them. This is the reason why, when someone dies, the children are not allowed in Jerusalem, they're not allowed to go to the funeral. Because if he ever wasted seed, those demons that he created could actually kill his children on the spot. There's actually a halacha against it. In Likutei Torah,

11:36Likutei 1, Torah 23. One who has rectified his brit. It is impossible for him to fall into the desire for money. If you do teshuva for blemishing the brit, you have a promise from Shamayim that you won't fall for money. Meaning that you'll be able, even if you have a lot of money, you'll be able to control yourself. It's a very big upside because money, and I can tell you from my own personal story, is a very big test. It's a very, very big test.