Talmud sobre Génesis 6:5

HALAKHAH: “How is this? If he collected the produce from him,” etc. Rebbi Aḥa said, it is written: “For the earth was filled with oppression because of them.³¹Gen. 6:13. Gen. rabba 31(5), in the name of R. Ḥanina.” What was their oppression? If a person came carrying a box full of lupines they all asembled and each one was taking less than the worth of a peruṭah, a case which cannot be brought before the judges³²The farmer in the end was left with nothing but so many thieves took only a minute amount that he did not have a case against anybody.. Rebbi Ḥiyya bar Abba said, “much, much”³³Gen. 6:5 about the generation of the flood; Gen. 18:20 about Sodom and Gomorrha, identical expressions. Gen. rabba 28(3); R. Berekhiah in the name of R. Joḥanan.. The acts of these were identical to the acts of those.

BARAITHA.³⁸K 19. Ye that inflame yourselves among the terebinths. These are they who excite themselves and masturbate. To what is he comparable? To an animal; as an animal is not mindful [of what it does] he too is not mindful of what he does. Another explanation: As an animal is destined for slaughter and has no portion in the World to Come, he too has no portion in the World to Come.
GEMARA. It has been taught: He³⁹The man who excites himself with lustful thoughts and one who practises masturbation. trangresses the law on the ground of copulating and of being subjected to copulation.⁴⁰He is considered as having played the part of both male and female in intercourse. And why is this so [heinous]? Because he excites the evil inclination against himself. It has been taught:⁴¹Suk. 52a, b (Sonc. ed., p. 249). The evil inclination of a man grows more powerful within him daily, as it is stated, And that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.⁴²Gen. 6, 5. The Heb. for imagination (veẓer) is the same as for ‘inclination’. Hence our Rabbis expounded that thinking leads to desire, desire to love, love to pursuit and pursuit to [the sinful] act. This should make you realize how difficult is the return from one to the other. It is similar with repentance: abstinence leads to strictness, strictness to zeal, zeal to cleanliness, cleanliness to [levitical] purity, [levitical] purity to piety, piety to humility, and the greatest of them all is humility, as it is stated, The spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to bring good tidings unto the humble.⁴³Isa. 61, 1. It does not mention the righteous, Israel, the pure or the pious, but to bring good tidings unto the humble.