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Male Homosexual Intercourse
Question
Hello!
It is known to me that this is forbidden with the utmost severity, and I have only a few short questions: what is the sin in this matter, why is it so severe, is it as severe as damaging the covenant and wasting seed, or is it something entirely different that does not have atonement? Regarding women, the prohibition in this matter is not mentioned. What does halacha say? Is there such a prohibition, or any objection, to a woman having relations with another woman? Is there any transgression in this? Heaven forbid, I am not expressing interest in any of these cases; I only wanted to know the halacha regarding this.
Thank you very much!
Answer
Hello and blessings
All sexual prohibitions are very severe, because the offense is committed from the depths of the human body, and in talmudic language this is called `transgressors of Israel with their bodies`.
The Torah imposed a very severe punishment for male homosexual intercourse, more severe than licentious relations with a married woman, and according to the commentators this sin undermines the foundation of the existence of the world, since all continuation is endangered by the institutionalization of such relationships. And according to Kabbalah, this sin causes great destruction in the higher worlds and turns very orderly matters upside down in the influence of abundance toward the lower worlds, so that these sinners lose much good and bring suffering to other people as a result of the corruption of the channels of influence to this world. See also in the book Shaar Ruach HaKodesh of Maran the Arizal on page 15 the extent of the devastation caused by the sinner through this, in all the worlds.
In male homosexual intercourse, one also violates the prohibition of emitting seed in vain. But the prohibition of male homosexual intercourse is far more severe.
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