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USING YOUR SEXUAL ENERGY IMMORALLY GIVES POWER DIRECTLY TO THE OTHER SIDE FOR WAR DEATH AND ALL BAD THINGS !
INCREASE THE POWER’S OF GOOD, OF GOD IN THE WORLD INSTEAD !
DON’T BE A SPIRITUAL DESTROYER
BE A LOVER OF GOD !
“Semen is one of the ” avot ha-tuma” Whether a man touches it or ejects it from his flesh, he is a “rishon l-tuma” by Torah law.
The Rambam, on the Mishna, rules that a “ba’al keri” is a “rishon l-tum’a”. In Hilkhot She’ar Avot ha-Tuma (5:1), he writes:
“Semen is one of the ” avot ha-tuma” Whether a man touches it or ejects it from his flesh, he is a “rishon l-tuma” by Torah law.
The Rambam rules that one who experiences an emission of semen and one who comes into contact with it are both considered a “rishon l-tum”
The prohibition to have relations with a “Nidah” (women during her period) or before she goes to the “mikveh” (ritual bath) after her period, can save a couple from so much hardship. By a women’s period negative energy goes out through her and by this she purifies the whole world and herself, but a residue of this negative energy called “Tumah” is left until it is removed by emersing in a “Mikvah” It is known in contemporary medical research that such relations can bring various deceases including cancer to the couple, look it up your self.
The children conceived through such relations can also have various child diseases. The Kaballah teaches that the spiritual makeup of these children suffers greatly.
Sexual morality is so important in spirituality as the force that motivates the sexual act is the same force, will which should also be channeled towards spiritual ascention, to the side of holiness as it is most strong force. It is this force that should animate us towards running towards making our “tikun” (correction). It will be by this strong revealed aspect of Divine will that the Divine Presence shall be reedemed from exile !
It is these sparks, this force, will that we need to raise out of exile in the klippot where it has fallen. Then the Soul will be able to so spiritual service as is proper with a intense love when it has been raised from lower desires, those which are distant from Holiness. Such as sexual desires only for one’s pleasure alone. Then just as one make’s love with their beloved and they are one so shall it be with The God and the Shechinah being together in a revealed complete unification with the complete redemption !
USING YOUR SEXUAL ENERGY IMMORALLY GIVES POWER DIRECTLY TO THE OTHER SIDE FOR WAR DEATH AND ALL BAD THINGS !
INCREASE THE POWER’S OF GOOD, OF GOD IN THE WORLD INSTEAD !
DON’T BE A SPIRITUAL DESTROYER
BE A LOVER OF GOD !
“Semen is one of the ” avot ha-tuma” Whether a man touches it or ejects it from his flesh, he is a “rishon l-tuma” by Torah law.
The Rambam, on the Mishna, rules that a “ba’al keri” is a “rishon l-tum’a”. In Hilkhot She’ar Avot ha-Tuma (5:1), he writes:
“Semen is one of the ” avot ha-tuma” Whether a man touches it or ejects it from his flesh, he is a “rishon l-tuma” by Torah law.
The Rambam rules that one who experiences an emission of semen and one who comes into contact with it are both considered a “rishon l-tum”
The prohibition to have relations with a “Nidah” (women during her period) or before she goes to the “mikveh” (ritual bath) after her period, can save a couple from so much hardship. By a women’s period negative energy goes out through her and by this she purifies the whole world and herself, but a residue of this negative energy called “Tumah” is left until it is removed by emersing in a “Mikvah” It is known in contemporary medical research that such relations can bring various deceases including cancer to the couple, look it up your self.
The children conceived through such relations can also have various child diseases. The Kaballah teaches that the spiritual makeup of these children suffers greatly.
Sexual morality is so important in spirituality as the force that motivates the sexual act is the same force, will which should also be channeled towards spiritual ascention, to the side of holiness as it is most strong force. It is this force that should animate us towards running towards making our “tikun” (correction). It will be by this strong revealed aspect of Divine will that the Divine Presence shall be reedemed from exile !
It is these sparks, this force, will that we need to raise out of exile in the klippot where it has fallen. Then the Soul will be able to so spiritual service as is proper with a intense love when it has been raised from lower desires, those which are distant from Holiness. Such as sexual desires only for one’s pleasure alone. Then just as one make’s love with their beloved and they are one so shall it be with The God and the Shechinah being together in a revealed complete unification with the complete redemption !
In the spiritual world of the sefirot, where man is considered the microcosm of Creation, it is the Yesod (gateway of energy) that parallels the organ of the Brit milah (circumcision). The High Holy Days come to help us rectify this very fundamental aspect of our lives, and connect us to flow of other divine powers that can come through out new “Yesod”
Jews eat and sleep in a Succah (Tabernacle) for the 7-day holiday of Succot
On succah we work energy with the four species, the lulav (Date palm branch) commands center stage, not only in towering above the etrog (citron), and willow branches, but the blessing that we recite in performing the mitzvah is over the “waving of the lulav.” The lulav is taken from the long, straight, upper branches of the date palm. In the holy Zohar, we find that the date palm, or tamar, represents the Tzaddik (the righteous individual) He conducts his life in utmost sexual purity, as in the case of Yosef, who was called Tzaddik, because he overcame the temptations of Potifar’s wife.
As we have said above “ The Yesod (gateway of energy) that parallels the organ of the Brit milah (circumcision).”
Its written :
“The tzaddik (righteous man) flourishes like the date palm; he grows like a cedar in Lebanon” (Psalms, 92:13).
“Regarding, ‘flourishes like a date palm,’ just as a date palm does not grow (and bear fruit) unless the male be planted by the female, so the tzaddik cannot flourish save when husband and wife are united, when the male aspect of tzaddik, is united with the female aspect of tzaddik, as with Avraham and Sarah” (Zohar, Bereshit 82a).
The Tzaddik is associated with the sefirah of Yesod (he has developed a great flow of spiritual energy), as its says, “Tzaddik yesod olam,” meaning “the Tzaddik is the foundation of the world” (Mishle, 10:25). Thus Yosef, who guarded his sexual purity, became the earthly channel of the Yesod to bring the blessing of G-d’s bounty into the world. From this we see that the lulav, in its spiritual connection to the sefirah of Yesod, is a powerful tool in rectify sexual transgression and drawing down Divine goodness to mankind.
Concerning the 4 species: 1) The Lulav branch towers above 2) the 3 myrtle branches 3) the 2 willow branches & 4) the Etrog citrus fruit
The 4 Species – Lulav branch towering above the others
Just as the Tzaddik excells over others in spiritual energy and shelters his generation, so too the lulav branch of the date palm rises above and looks over the three accompanying species. In waving the upright, male symbol of the luluv, the embodiment of the Yesod, we activate the female aspect of the Yesod above, drawing down Divine blessing. We “excite” the Shechinah above with the Lulov.
Accordingly, the holiday of Succot is also known as the Festival of the Harvest, or the Ingathering, when we harvest our material and spiritual blessings at the start of the year from the mercy of God and the work we did in Elul , Rosh Hashanah, the days of Teshuva and Yon kippor.. The Hebrew word for “the Harvest,” האסיף, has the same numerical value as Yosef, יוסף, once again hinting at the connection between sexual purity and the bounty of the Festival of the Harvest.
In its inner, spiritual essence, the lulav is like a healing laser beam whose light soars upward with our wavings to the furthest reaches of Heaven, healing the damaged Yesod and releasing its life-sustaining blessings. It opens up the Yesod-gateway of energy for more and greater quality flow. We wave the lulav toward the four directions of the compass, and up and down, a total of six directions, which parallels the Yesod, the sixth of the lower sefirot. There are many Kabbalistic meanings of the lulav and its wavings that come to remind us that our connection to G-d is directly influenced by our level of sexual purity, symbolized by the lulav, in its mystical association to the Yesod and the organ of the Brit. All is Dependant on the Yesod-gateway of energy.
Rabbi Yekutiel Zalman Zev points out that the lulav can to be seen to represent the letter vav. Pictorially, the letter vav is long and straight, like the lulav and the organ corresponding to the Yesod. The letter vav has the numerical value of six, paralleling the sixth sefirah of Yesod. By waving the lulav three times forward and three times back, for a total of six wavings, we actualize the flow of the Yesod. It is the perfect tool to fix clean and refine the Yesod-gateway of energy.
Aiming our secret spiritual weapon toward the six directions multiplies this flow of bounty into our lives. Also, it is the letter vav in the middle of God’s Name (Yhv”h) that connects the first two letters, Yud and Hai, representing the upper spiritual worlds, with the final letter Hai, representing our world. Once again, this hints that the vav-lulav-Yesod represents the channel that brings Divine blessing from the upper worlds to our world (“The Secret of Hashmal,” pg. 429; see also, Tikunei Zohar, 134a). We only need to open up this Yesod-gateway of energy, and draw flow.
The Maharil (“Laws of Lulav”) notes that the first and last letters of the Torah, bet and lamed, and the first and last letters of the Tanach (prophets and Writings), vav and lamed, make up the letters of lulav. This once again hints that the lulav-yesod is the central axis that joins one end of our holy writings with the other, encompassing the entire Torah. We see from this the whole Bible hints at the Lulov reminding us of its importance.
The Ariza”l points out that the word, lulav (לולב) has the same gematria (numerical value) of 68 as the word “chaim” meaning life (חיים). This is because of the life force that flows from the male principle of the lulav-Yesod, to the feminine principle of Malchut, represented by the etrog, which symbolizes the fruit of the womb (Shar HaKavanot, Succot, 5; and see also, Zohar, Pinchus, 266b). When we raise the lulav and etrog together, we unite the male and female principles of Creation in a spiritual unification, called Yichud. This unification of Masculine and feminine give birth to new spiritual forces for our souls and the worlds. We create the arousal of new providence.
This union of the lulav and etrog helps to rectify the spiritual blemishes caused by sexual transgressions whereby the holy, life force of the seminal seed was not channeled from the Yesod of the husband to the Malchut of the wife in the proper Torah fashion. Such transgressions include masturbation, pre-marital sex, forbidden familial relations, adultery and other sexual wrongdoing.
The Kabbalist elder, Rabbi Eliahu Leon Levi, stresses the importance of grasping the lulav at the bottom of its stem, and not in the middle, so that the hands do not act as a barrier separating the upper spine of the lulav (the Yesod) from the etrog (the Malchut). Rather, the lulav and etrog should be held together at the bottom of the four species, so that the flow of Divine illumination from the Yesod to the Malchut, stimulated by the waving, is not interrupted.
The three hadassim (myrtle leaves) channel the energy of the sefirot of Chesed, Givorah, and Tiferet. When combined with the two aravot (willows), symbolizing Netzach and Hod, all of the seven lower sefirot are united in a perfect unity. All these Divine powers are channeled through the Lulov.
Concerning the Succah itself.
The Succah has the energy of the Clouds of glory which protected the Jewish People in the desert when they left Egypt. The Zohar teaches that these Clouds which extended like pillars towering over the encampments of the Jews, embodied the all-encompassing flow of Divine energy contained in the Yesod (Tikkunim 148b). Again by the Yesod all the Energy flows through.
The Ariza”l states, (Shar HaKavanot, Succah 1), and it is recorded in the Mishna Berurah, that it is preferable to recite the blessing over the lulav, and to wave it, inside the succah. This brings about a powerful union between the all-encompassing aspect of the surrounding lights of the Yesod, the succah, with its inner aspect, the lulav. The lulov is a symbol of the spine which lies inside the body. Thus the succah becomes an electric power plant of high-voltage spiritual energy from both within and without, generating the supreme joy and renewal of the holiday.
Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hakohen Kook, the first chief Rabbi of Israel, writes that: “The succah inspires such supernal joy that it cannot be a permanent dwelling, only temporary. Light waves of joy continuously flow, one wave ascends and immediately, without pause, a second wave, brighter and more joyous than the first, descends and spreads.”
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov teaches that this supreme, climaxing joy of the holidays, attained in the mitzvah of succah, can only truly be experienced by the person who has rectified his sexual sins (Likutei Halachot, Laws of Succah, 1). “After Yom Kippur, when we merited the seal of the holy Brit through the rectification of the Brit and our prayers, immediately after this, we begin to build the succah, because the succah depends on Tikun HaBrit because the succah represents the Clouds of Glory, and those who damaged the Brit through sexual transgression were cast out by the Cloud.”
Even though the Jews were protected by the invincible Clouds of Glory on their departure from Egypt, the evil nation of Amalek succeeded in its unprompted attack, as the Torah records: “Remember what Amalek did to you on the way of your leaving Egypt, how he met you (karcha) by the way and killed the hindermost of you who were feeble in your rear” (Devarim, 25:17-18). Rashi explains the word “karcha” in its root meaning of “keri,” an impure emission of semen. Rashi relates that Amalek seduced the weaker Jews into sexual transgression, and when the holy Cloud vomited them out, Amalek pounced on them and killed them. Only those Jews who guarded their sexual purity were protected by the Cloud. So too, Rabbi Nachman explains, only a Jew who guards the Brit in sexual purity can experience the transcendental joy of the succah.
May it be the will of the Almighty that with our lulavs upraised in our hands, we all be triumphant in our war against the spirit of Amalek, which lurks in the impure cultures of the world, seeking to blemish our holiness.
Have a happy holy Holiday !