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What is So Bad About Masturbating? |
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Other Kabbalists' Writings
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Written by Nahar Shalom Yeshiva
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Tuesday, 26 January 2010 |
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Several articles and Questions and Answers on this site address the problem of spilling semen in vain from various points of view. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 27 January 2010 )
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Tikun HaYesod - Learning and Penitential Prayer |
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Written by Rabbi Aharon Rota
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Tuesday, 05 January 2010 |
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by Tzvi Fishman
As we have previously written in the essay, “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf,” that while repentance is always accepted before G-d, the period of “Shovavim” (the 6 straight weeks starting with parshat Shemot) is an especially propitious time to atone for sexual transgressions. To help readers, we have translated a powerful penitential prayer composed by the renowned Torah scholar, Rabbi Aharon Rota, of blessed memory, author of the classic works, “Taharat HaKodesh” and “Shomer Emunim.”
This prayer and the learning that precedes it are designed to cleanse a person of sexual transgressions, known as blemishes to the Brit. These transgressions, including the spilling of semen in vain (masturbation), pre-marital sex, sexual relations with non-Jews, relations with a woman in her “niddah” menstrual period, adultery, improper relations with one’s wife, including premature ejaculation, forbidden incestuous relations, and the like, all of these are also known as blemishes to the “Yesod.”
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 05 January 2010 )
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Written by Tzvi Fishman
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Monday, 28 December 2009 |
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One of the most powerful rectifications to blemishes to the holy Brit is Torah study. Rabbi Eliahu Leon Levi explains that the 22 letters of the Torah are contained in the place of the holy Brit, as it says concerning Yaacov, “And he lay down in that place”.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 03 January 2010 )
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Other Kabbalists' Writings
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Written by The Arizal
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Tuesday, 20 October 2009 |
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It is forbidden to pray when one is depressed. If a person does so, his soul cannot receive the celestial light that descends upon him during prayer.
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Written by Rabbi Yechiel Eisenbach
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Tuesday, 20 October 2009 |
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In this essay, we will try to explain the gravity of women dressing in an immodest fashion in order to appear attractive in the eyes of strange men.
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An Awesome, Awe-Inspiring Prayer For The Month Of Elul |
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Other Kabbalists' Writings
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Written by Tzvi Fishman
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Sunday, 30 August 2009 |
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[Composed by Rabbi Natan of Breslov, foremost disciple of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov]
May it be Thy will the L-rd my G-d, and G-d of my forefathers, that you assist me and grant me the merit in Your great compassion and your awesome kindness, that I speedily merit to truly feel the pain of my many abundant and awful sins, transgressions, and willful violations of the Torah that are piled up high to the sky, as innumerable as the sands of the earth - especially the sexual sins that I committed which blemished the Covenant of the Brit, the blemishes to the seminal drops that issue forth from the brain, that I spilled in vain, whether accidentally or knowingly, whether against my will or willfully.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 02 September 2009 )
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