Prager is NOT an observant Jew. Period. I know a rabbi who is furious at him for presenting himself as some kind of authority on all things Jewish when as the rabbi said “he knows nothing!” Pornography is NOT acceptable in any way in Jewish law, and “wasting seed” from masturbation is a HUGE sin. A son of Judah was killed by an enraged God for merely pulling out of Tamar so she would not become pregnant and spoil her gorgeous figure.
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.and “wasting seed” from masturbation is a HUGE sin. A son of
Judah was killed by an enraged God for merely pulling out of
Tamar so she would not become pregnant
and spoil her gorgeous figure. I think you could be getting your Tamars mixed up. And what was I was always told...
Onan was killed because he did not obey God and was just posing as to follow the marriage law and required to impregnate his brother's wife -
and didn't want to produce an heir that would compromise his (Onan's) current and future inheritance.
Disobedience and Greed motives.
God was pissed Onan was cheating his obligations to the Law-
dissing God's will- and his own clan's rights.
The interruptus part of spilling the seed was simply the method he used-
to accomplish his scam, but was not killed for this reason.
The seed spilling has always taken on a life of its own
in this regard,
which is being taken out of its context.
I don't know if that is a defense Prager uses with regard for a self-pleasuring defense...
but it certainly can carry sinful reasons on many levels... though sins that would usually not require one to be killed over...