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191) And everyone starts and says, “Woe unto the evil wicked, for the reward of his hands will be done to him.” The reward of his hands includes the one who fornicates with his hands, to ejaculate his seed in vain.

192) Anyone who ejaculates his seed in vain is called “wicked,” and does not see the face of the Shechina, as it is written, “For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; no evil dwells with You.” It is also written, “And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was wicked.” Here, too, woe unto the evil wicked relates to one who ejaculates his seed in vain. Woe unto that wicked who is evil, who makes himself evil, since the reward of his own hands shall be done unto him. One who fornicates with his hands, to eject and to ruin his seed in vain, is punished in the world of truth more than for all the transgressions.

193) It is written, “Woe to the wicked. evil.” Since it is written, “Woe to the wicked,” why did he also have to say, “Evil,” since wicked means evil? Yet, one who makes himself evil is who ejaculates his seed in vain. Everyone rises from Hell, and he does not rise. And will the rest of the wicked, who killed people, be better than him, and they will rise and he will not rise? They all rise and he does not rise because they killed other people, and he killed his very own children and spilled much blood.

In regards to the rest of the wicked of the world, it does not say, “And the thing which he did was evil in the eyes of the Lord,” but here it is written, “And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was wicked.” What he did was wicked in the eyes of the Creator because it is written, “And he spilled it on the ground.”

194) There is not a transgression in the world on which there is no repentance, except for one who ejaculates his seed in vain. And there are no wicked who will not see the face of the Shechina upon their death, except this one. It is written about him, “No evil dwells with You,” at all. Happy are the righteous in this world and in the next world. It is written about them, “And your people are all righteous; they shall inherit the land forever.” “They shall inherit the land forever” is as it is written, “I shall walk before the Lord in the lands of the living,” in the Shechina, which is called “a land.”