We see that "spilling seed in vain" is a sin in Genesis [with Er and Onan]. However Rav Nahman was certainly right about the importance of the Tikun Klali [saying the ten psalms: 16, 32, 41, 42, 59, 77, 90, 105, 137, 150] as a correction for this. But how do we know that it is possible to correct? That comes from all the idea that repentance is always possible --but not always effective. That is one might repent in terms of not doing again what he or she has done. But that obviously does not take care of the effects of the sin.
The idea here is that sometimes one might do a sin. So how does one go about correcting it? In almost all books of Musar it is explained by not doing it again is the main repentance. However they also add (2) regret and (3) confession.
You see this also in the Gemara Yoma. if one has transgressed a positive command then if he repents, then he is forgiven. If a Negative command then if he repents that protects from the pains and problems that result until Yom Kippur and then Yom Kippur finishes. If one has transgressed a negative command that has karet [cutting of from one's people] attached to it, then repentance and Yom Kippur help and troubles and problems that one goes through and accepts as repentance finish.
Desecrating the Divine Name is even more severe. For that repentance, Yom Kippur troubles help but only death finishes if it is accepted as repentant. [It is not that anyone that dies gets their sins forgiven. Rather it is dying in a certain kind of way.]
[This "desecrating the Divine Name" is kind of what the religious people do. They make a show of how religious they are, and then act not nicely. That makes the name of Torah to lose its grace and charm.]
The idea here is that sometimes one might do a sin. So how does one go about correcting it? In almost all books of Musar it is explained by not doing it again is the main repentance. However they also add (2) regret and (3) confession.
You see this also in the Gemara Yoma. if one has transgressed a positive command then if he repents, then he is forgiven. If a Negative command then if he repents that protects from the pains and problems that result until Yom Kippur and then Yom Kippur finishes. If one has transgressed a negative command that has karet [cutting of from one's people] attached to it, then repentance and Yom Kippur help and troubles and problems that one goes through and accepts as repentance finish.
Desecrating the Divine Name is even more severe. For that repentance, Yom Kippur troubles help but only death finishes if it is accepted as repentant. [It is not that anyone that dies gets their sins forgiven. Rather it is dying in a certain kind of way.]
[This "desecrating the Divine Name" is kind of what the religious people do. They make a show of how religious they are, and then act not nicely. That makes the name of Torah to lose its grace and charm.]
