{"id":11069,"date":"2025-12-08T17:52:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=11069"},"modified":"2025-12-08T17:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:52:34","slug":"every-firstborn-of-an-ass-you-shall-redeem-with-a-lamb","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/every-firstborn-of-an-ass-you-shall-redeem-with-a-lamb\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Firstborn of an Ass You Shall Redeem with a Lamb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>230) \u201cAnd every firstborn of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb.\u201d It is a commandment to redeem the firstborn of an ass, and to decapitate the firstborn of an ass, if it is not redeemed, as it is written, \u201cBut if you do not redeem it, then you shall behead it.\u201d This is the meaning of the evil inclination being able to repent and to later return to being good inclination, as it is written, \u201cI will make him a helpmate against him.\u201d If he is rewarded, \u201chelp\u201d; if not rewarded, \u201cagainst him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is because it was written about these forms, a lamb and an ass, \u201cEvery firstborn of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb,\u201d meaning that if he is rewarded with repenting, although he is an ass, ignorant, he will be redeemed from the exile with a lamb, which is as it is written, \u201ca lamb is the disperse of Israel.\u201d And if he does not repent, \u201cYou shall behead him,\u201d since he makes himself a stiff-necked people, and they are destined to be blotted out from the book of life. 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