Lack of discipline: 'For lack of discipline they will die, led astray by their own great folly.' 'Lack of discipline' (me'even musar) is the root cause. Without discipline—the corrective instruction that shapes character—a person is vulnerable to folly. 'Led astray by their own great folly' (v'beshlut ishluto yanut) indicates that the person wanders into destruction through his own foolishness. No one is forced into sexual sin; the person chooses it, step by step. But he chooses it through folly—the failure to exercise judgment and restraint. The consequence of this folly is death.

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