we have a winner! > "the chassidim repeatedly commit the sin of involuntary ejaculation during prayer according to the commandment of rabbi yisroel ba'al shem tov, who said to them that just as one who engages in intercourse with an impotent organ cannot give birth, so one should be potent at the time of prayer, and, in prayer, it is necessary to unite [sexually] with the shechina. it is therefore necessary to move back and forth as in the act of intercourse." source: shever poshim: zos toras hakana'os 33a-b > ''prayer is zivug ("coupling") with the shechinah. just as there is motion at the beginning of coupling, so, too, one must move (sway) at the beginning of prayer. thereafter one can stand still, without motion, attached to the shechinah with great deveikut (cleaving to god") as a result of your swaying, you can attain great bestirment. for you think to yourself: why do i move myself? presumably it is because the shechinah surely stands before me. this will effect in you a state of great hitlahavut ("enthusiasm; rapture").' source: tzava'at harivash 68, by baal shem tov (founder of hasidic judaism) * (btw the 'shechinah' is a female manifestation of god, i.e., god's daughter) > "from the besh"t [baal shem tov] of blessed memory. "for from within my flesh i will see [god]" (job 19:26). just as a physical union is not fertile except with an erect penis [ , lit. "living limb"] and embrace and joy, so too a spiritual union -- and this is words of torah and prayer -- when engaged with with a living limb and joy and delight, then it will be fertile..." source: keter shem tov 1:9
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