Summaries

According to Jewish tradition, there is no forgiveness or atonement for the grave sin of 'wasting sperm'. Yet is it possible to fulfill this commandment in today's reality? This sensitive documentary takes us to a personal, complexed and first on a kind journey.

The film creates a daring first exposure on the way parents, rabbis, teachers, pedagogues and therapists within the Orthodox Hasidic Jewish Community educating their male children from infancy to adolescence, to avoid spilling their sperm. They target them to keep their seed only after marriage with a female for the purpose of fertilization. "Sacred Sperm" penetrates into one of the most suppressed hidden issues in the Orthodox Hasidic Jewish Community - a Taboo. Throughout the film we follow the emotional and theological struggle of the director who is trying to find a proper way as a father to explain his teenager son logically why he should keep this major Mitzvah (commandment) which perceived by many as unreasonable and seems impossible to fulfill.—Gruder, Ori

A personal journey of the director Ori Gruder (aka Or Yashar), an orthodox religious Jew after one of the most difficult and Important prohibitions in Judaism - "waste of Sperm" that for its violation there is almost no forgiveness or atonement.—Anonymous

Details

Keywords
  • education
  • jewish
  • masturbation
  • sperm
  • hasidic
Genres
  • Drama
  • Documentary
Release date Oct 1, 2014
Countries of origin Israel
Language Hebrew
Production companies Buzz Television

Box office

Budget $100000

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 14m
Color Color
Aspect ratio 16:9 HD

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