Tumah
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Related to a post I made in a thread on another topic.
There is a concept in Judaism of G-d's Blessing to the world constantly flowing from Giver to Receiver in a chain stretching from G-d to the creation. Man, the pinnacle of creation, has the ability to affect these spiritual mediums of Giver and Receiver through his symbolic actions. You can understand the Divine Flow as beneficial energy. This is energy that G-d desires to give us. However, our actions are what dictate how much of this beneficial energy reaches us. The more we negatively effect the Divine conduit, the less of the Divine Flow we would receive. Consider that G-d is the archetypal Giver and the the creation, with an emphasis on humanity, the archetypal receiver. There is another element called, "the outside". That is, when the flow does not reach its intended destination (humanity), to our detriment.
This concept is represented in the male-female relationship. The male, is created with the physical component of the Giver and the female, the Receiver (this is dynamic, but as a general statement true). When the male puts his flow into the female, this is reflected in the higher spiritual realms where his Divine soul is connected and the Divine Flow progresses to its intended vessel, untimely reaching us.
Since the male generally represents the archetypal Giver, we only find prohibitions related to this idea by men, such as in Gen. 38:9 and Lev. 18:22. Since men generally represent the Divine Flow, these prohibitions will only be relevant to them. While we find that women, who represent the Divine vessel have more Laws related to maintaining their purity such as the menstruation and post-pregnancy impurity laws (Death impurity, dead animal impurity, leprosy impurity and abnormal discharge impurity are shared by both).
In respect to the issue of the OP, wasting one's seed then causes the Divine Flow to go "outside" the vessel, so that it never reaches us. Imagine pouring a drink of water, and the water going everywhere but inside your cup. Not only do you have no drink, you also have a mess to clean up.
This is the responsibility of humanity, the pinnacle of creation made in the image of G-d. We are given the power to control the success of the world.
That is how I understand it.
There is a concept in Judaism of G-d's Blessing to the world constantly flowing from Giver to Receiver in a chain stretching from G-d to the creation. Man, the pinnacle of creation, has the ability to affect these spiritual mediums of Giver and Receiver through his symbolic actions. You can understand the Divine Flow as beneficial energy. This is energy that G-d desires to give us. However, our actions are what dictate how much of this beneficial energy reaches us. The more we negatively effect the Divine conduit, the less of the Divine Flow we would receive. Consider that G-d is the archetypal Giver and the the creation, with an emphasis on humanity, the archetypal receiver. There is another element called, "the outside". That is, when the flow does not reach its intended destination (humanity), to our detriment.
This concept is represented in the male-female relationship. The male, is created with the physical component of the Giver and the female, the Receiver (this is dynamic, but as a general statement true). When the male puts his flow into the female, this is reflected in the higher spiritual realms where his Divine soul is connected and the Divine Flow progresses to its intended vessel, untimely reaching us.
Since the male generally represents the archetypal Giver, we only find prohibitions related to this idea by men, such as in Gen. 38:9 and Lev. 18:22. Since men generally represent the Divine Flow, these prohibitions will only be relevant to them. While we find that women, who represent the Divine vessel have more Laws related to maintaining their purity such as the menstruation and post-pregnancy impurity laws (Death impurity, dead animal impurity, leprosy impurity and abnormal discharge impurity are shared by both).
In respect to the issue of the OP, wasting one's seed then causes the Divine Flow to go "outside" the vessel, so that it never reaches us. Imagine pouring a drink of water, and the water going everywhere but inside your cup. Not only do you have no drink, you also have a mess to clean up.
This is the responsibility of humanity, the pinnacle of creation made in the image of G-d. We are given the power to control the success of the world.
That is how I understand it.
