Open Publication: How an Official Bnei Baruch Text Normalizes the Language of Violence

The text “Football - You Are Sex!” went up on an official Bnei Baruch resource on August 22, 2008. Not a marginal comment. Not a private exchange. The leader’s own words, sitting in public view for nearly twenty years. Someone in the community asked about football. Laitman answered.

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Question: In our time football has become a religion, a way of filling life. What is its appeal? Why do men sit in front of the TV with beer and football, as you often say?

Answer: As an answer, I will offer a couple of thoughts from "The Metaphysics of Football," and you can think up the rest yourselves. All the words and terms come from there!

Football is a game played with the feet. The symbol of the foot is the male sexual organ.
The function of the foot is destruction (as they say: to trample underfoot, feet first).
The foot stands against the head, the ball. In the past they played with severed heads, a symbol of castration.
Football is like sex. The aim is a goal: with the foot (the sexual organ) to score into the goal, into the hole.
The foot is the phallus, the ball is sperm, the goal is the vagina.
The goalkeeper, defender of the goal, is a censor opposing the players' desires.
The referee monitors compliance with the rules, but does not prevent desire, like a Father regulating sexual life, as a social matter, within reasonable bounds.
I am the player, the aim is satisfaction. The ball, libido, the goal, the head of the penis.
The goalkeeper is the superego that interferes with the satisfaction of a goal, but pleasure arises precisely from overcoming the obstacle.
The player thinks about satisfying his desire. The goalkeeper thinks about the team.
The goalkeeper is the guardian, entitled to take the ball in his hands, to restrain sex within reasonable limits.
Football's contagiousness lies in its sublimation.
A man prefers not to play but to watch football (on television), because although he is tired, he still wants to "stick it in," and into "someone else's goal" at that: the sweetness of betrayal, of sin. The basic meaning of the game is the struggle for the woman, for the impossibility of excessive desire (it has built up, burned out!). Therefore watching football is indecent; it is akin to voyeurism (watching how others "stick it in").

Now do you understand what your husband is doing?! (joke).

The record leaves no room for spin. On August 22, 2008, a teacher answered a student’s everyday question about football by laying out an aggressive sexual metaphor — on an official Bnei Baruch resource.

The environment in which this language grew

The people reading this text were already moving through night lessons, group discipline, an internal vocabulary, and the teacher’s hierarchy. Inside that kind of environment, the leader’s words don’t get questioned — they soak in as normal.

The leader’s public language does the heavy lifting. He takes a plain question about football — and with the weight of his authority, twists it into a sexualized scheme of body, desire, penetration, betrayal, and “someone else’s goal.” That’s not just a bizarre answer. It’s a signal: this is the kind of speech the top permits.

The group then reinforces the teacher’s word — the article on sadnaot and submission lays out that machinery. But even without that context, the document stands on its own: an official public text where the leader answers a student by way of a humiliating sexual metaphor.

That same logic — power as a right to sexual possession — runs through Laitman without any metaphor at all, stated plain: what he says about women.

The text “Football — You Are Sex!” still sits on the organization’s official resource.