Europeans Debate Castration of Sex Offenders

In an article in the NY Times asks, whether castration can help rehabilitate violent sex offenders? The practice has come under new scrutiny after the Council of Europe’s anti-torture committee last month called surgical castration “invasive, irreversible and mutilating” and demanded that the Czech Republic stop offering the procedure to violent sex offenders. Other critics said that castration threatened to lead society down a dangerous road toward eugenics.

The Cabala in explaining the previous world called Tohu/Chaos, identified as Mars, notes that in Tohu there was no sexuality; the reason there was no sexuality stemmed from the nature of Tohu to accrue life without necessitating a partner—all life in Tohu grew independently. In this world, the second is a series of seven thousand year cycles on seven different worlds, sexuality is yet undefied.

Our world is called Tikun/Fixing the selfish independence of the previous world by requiring partnership achieved through a sublimation of ego into the glue of connectivity. Sexuality is the ninth of the Ten Sefirot; sexuality is more than one tenth of the human being, since sexuality is located in the center of the body and therefore is attached to the very essence—it is from that place children are conceived.

Sexuality strikes at the very uniqueness of the human being who is meant to fix this world—each human being, even the murderer, is considered in the Torah to be a small world.