Rabbeinu Bachya (Vayikra 24:11) Whenever someone displays signs of effrontery and disdain towards the Jewish religion and G’d it is time to examine his maternal genealogy as it is certain that the droplet of sperm which such an individual grew out of reflected a negative deed or thought at the time when marital relations which produced that baby took place.
Sperm is usually issued by the father, not the mother.
ReplyDeleteMust be a faulty translation.