Masturbation is a bad, bad thing for Jews. It was men who fornicated with their hand aka masturbators that caused the Flood. The Zohar, the bible of the Kabbalah, makes it explicitly clear that masturbation is the worst & only unforgivable sin a Jew can commit.
"According to rabbinic tradition,
the generation of the Flood indulged
in spilling semen (masturbation), a
sin tantamount to murder since it
wastes potential life."
Daniel Matt, professor of Jewish
mysticism"Whosoever emits semen in vain deserves death"
Babylonian Talmud Niddah 13a
"Rabbi Yitshak said, 'To include one who fornicates with his hands, emitting and wasting seed fruitlessly (masturbates). For we have learned: Whoever emits his seed fruitlessly is called evil and does not see the face of the Shekhinah, as is
written: You
are not a God who delights in
wickedness; evil cannot abide with You (Psalms
5:5), and similarly: Er,
first
born of Judah, was evil in
the eyes of YHVH (Genesis
38:7). Here too, Woe
to the wicked! Evil! - woe to
the wicked one, who is evil, who
made himself evil. For what his
hands have perpetrated will be
requited to him - to
include one who fornicate with
his hands, emitting seed
fruitlessly; this one is torment
in that world more than all
(Whoever emits his seed
fruitlessly. In the world of the
Zohar, masturbation is a heinous
sin.)
"Come and see! For it is written: Woe to the wicked! Evil! Since it is written Woe to the wicked, why evil? But as I have said: He made himself evil. And it is written: Evil cannot abide with You. All of them ascend, whereas this one does not (all other sinners ascend from Hell once they have been purged).
"Now, you might ask, "What about
other sinners who have killed
people? (What about murderers?
Is the punishment of a
masturbator more severe than
theirs?)'
Come and see: All of them
ascend, but he does not.
Why? Because they have
killed other human beings,
whereas he has killed his
children - his very own
children! - spilling much
blood." (Wasting the seed of his
potential children. Whoever
emits semen fruitlessly is as
though he sheds blood).
Come and see: Of other sinners
of the world is not written It
was evil in the eyes of YHVH,
whereas here is written What he
did was evil in the eyes of YHVH
(Genesis
38:10). Why Because he
wasted (his
seed) on the
ground (Genesis 38:9).
We have learned: Rabbi Yehudah said, "There is nothing in the world for which one cannot repent, except for this. There is no sinner who cannot see the face of Shekhinah, except for this one, as is written: Evil cannot abide with You - at all!"
