What's The Punishment For Wasting Seed (9 Minutes)

0:11People that are worried about having enough money to have kids, it's the biggest thing that people have no idea. Each child comes with a parnasah. So that means that if someone has four kids, And I say, listen, I don't know if we can afford a fifth child. Maybe we should go to the Rabbi. Maybe he could give us permission not to have any more children, even though it's all four boys and we're supposed to have at least one boy and one girl. But maybe we can get a discount or something from the Rabbi. He could just say four boys is like one boy and one girl. You know, make a new halacha for us, special. We don't have money. We don't have money. Little do they know that the fifth kid that's waiting, that the neshamah that's waiting in the chamber upstairs, comes with a million and a half dollars. They don't know. Why? Because they think everything is in their hands. The parnassah is in their hands. Every time someone wastes seed,

1:26They're also wasting that million and a half dollars. They're also wasting the billion dollars. They're also wasting this world. Not just talking about the next world. Next world, Hashem yerachem. They're literally creating for themselves the worst type of Gehenom there is. One of these types of Gehenoms that doesn't end. Ever. People don't believe in eternal punishment. They think, nah, Kevod HaRav, you're a machmir. Too much. What does it say in the Torah? It is eternal punishment. Where does it say it? As we all know, we have Torah Shebichtav and Torah Shebe'al Peh. Written Torah and Oral Torah. I couldn't bring all of my sefarim, so I have to put some on my phone. You go to Gemara, Masechet Rosh Hashanah, daf 17a.

2:28Wrongdoers of Israel who sin with their body—sounds familiar, right? And wrongdoers of the Gentiles who sin with their body—also sounds familiar—go down to Gehenom and are punished there for 12 months. This is because someone told me to look; see, the first verse over here means that they just get punished for 12 months. If you would have read the rest of the Gemara, you would have a different understanding. This first 12 months is the trial. After 12 months, their body is consumed. Because someone told me, "No, look, see the first verse over here," it means that they just get punished for 12 months. If you would have read the rest of the Gemara, you would have a different understanding. This first 12 months is the trial. After 12 months, their body is consumed. and their soul is burned, and the wind scatters them under the soles of the feet of the righteous, as it says, "And you shall tread down the wicked, and they shall be as ashes under the soles of your feet." But as for the minim, minim are like idol worshipers, and for the informers and for the scoffers.

3:52who rejected the Torah and denied the resurrection of the dead, and those who abandoned the ways of the community, and those who spread their terror in the land of the living, and who sinned and made the masses sin, like Yeravam, the son of Nevat, and his fellows. These will go down to Gehenom and be punished there for all generations. As it says, "And they shall go forth and look upon the carcasses of the men that have rebelled against Me." Meaning, Gehinnom will be consumed, but they will not be consumed. Meaning, Gehinnom eventually will end. When the Mashiach comes, eventually there's no more Gehinnom, except their part of the Gehinnom. That continues forever.

4:55Why all this requires such a severe punishment is because they laid their hands on a temple, as it says, "I have surely built a house of habitation." As you can see, wasting seed fits several of the descriptions, so it's not just a pirush as some people think. Almost done. In Gemara Masechet Niddah, page 13b, they talk about this issue and whether a man is allowed to even touch that area of his body. They say no, it is not allowed.

6:00Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi was also known as Rabbeinu HaKadosh. Chazal asks, why is he called Rabbeinu HaKadosh? Why isn't everyone else known as a Kadosh? Because he never even looked at that area of his body. Even with his eyes he didn't look. Of course, he didn't touch. So Chazal says, Yeah, but what if... How is a person going to go to the bathroom? You have to wear special pants. Okay. What about if you have a spike? Spike. It hurts. It gets stuck in that area of the body. It's painful. The Gemara in Masechet Niddah, page 13b, says... It's better off that his stomach will blow up and he die, rather than him remove the spike from that area that's hurting him. That's how careful they were to even touch the area. In the same Gemara, Masechet Niddah, page 13a, Rabbi Eliezer says,

7:30It's better that one would tell everyone that all of his kids are mamzerim and get a lifetime worth of shame than touch his private part and waste seed. It's better that he gets shame. Everyone calls him, "Hey, look, your wife was with another guy. Look, all your kids are mamzerim. Ha, ha." And he can prove, no, they're not mamzerim, they're not mamzerim. So it's better that he gets that shame his whole life than to waste seed one time. Shame is a big deal in Judaism. Someone who shames his friends in public, someone who makes fun of someone in public, has no share in the World to Come. We learned this from David HaMelech. So, to accept upon yourself the worst possible shame; that all your children are from another man, and your wife is a harlot. Accept it, but do not waste seed.