Sefer HaMiddot, A Seminal Emission, Part I/ספר המדות·קרי·חלק ראשון

1A person will experience a seminal emission after having spoken of immoral matters or after losing his faith in God.

2One who spills his seed will in the end go naked.

3Depression causes one to experience a seminal emission.

4A person who is careful not to eat food about which there is some Halakhic question is protected from being made impure by a seminal emission.

5One who has experienced a seminal emission should immerse in a mikvah before eating at the Tzaddik’s table.

6Rejoicing in the good that befalls the Tzaddik is a rectification for wasting one’s seed.

7By mocking others, a person will come to pollute himself with a seminal emission.

8Wasting seed comes from frivolity.

9A wasteful emission of seed is brought on by eating garlic and eggs,

10or by engaging in idle talk, or by using obscene language.