Talmud su Isaia 61:1
ר֛וּחַ אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִ֖ה עָלָ֑י יַ֡עַן מָשַׁח֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֹתִ֜י לְבַשֵּׂ֣ר עֲנָוִ֗ים שְׁלָחַ֙נִי֙ לַחֲבֹ֣שׁ לְנִשְׁבְּרֵי־לֵ֔ב לִקְרֹ֤א לִשְׁבוּיִם֙ דְּר֔וֹר וְלַאֲסוּרִ֖ים פְּקַח־קֽוֹחַ׃
Lo spirito del Signore Dio è su di me; Perché l'Eterno mi ha consacrato per portare buone novelle agli umili; Mi ha mandato per legare i cuori infranti, per proclamare la libertà ai prigionieri e l'apertura degli occhi a coloro che sono legati;
Tractate Kallah Rabbati
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.
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.
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