{"id":12458,"date":"2025-12-16T20:58:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12458"},"modified":"2025-12-16T20:58:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:58:36","slug":"when-an-ox-or-a-sheep-or-a-goat-is-born","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/when-an-ox-or-a-sheep-or-a-goat-is-born\/","title":{"rendered":"405. When an Ox or a Sheep or a Goat Is Born"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>May 1979<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen an ox or a sheep or a goat is born.\u201d A day-old ox is called \u201can ox,\u201d since what he can achieve, he has already achieved on the first day. Hence, people who do not belong to the quality of \u201cspeaking\u201d but to the quality of \u201canimal\u201d live their whole lives with the intellect that they had attained on the day they were born, meaning the day when they are initiated into&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;[commandments].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only addition that they have is in quantity, since it is a small intellect compared to the intellect that can be attained with the intellect of the Torah. Hence, what one achieves on the first day, with this he lives through the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conversely, the speaking degree, which is the quality of \u201cman,\u201d as in \u201cYou are called \u2018man\u2019 and not the nations of the world,\u201d is the opposite: \u201cMan is born a wild ass\u201d compared to what he can attain when he is rewarded with the quality of \u201cman.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is so because the spirit of the beast descends, meaning that all its actions are for the purpose of below, namely for one\u2019s own sake, while man\u2019s spirit ascends, meaning it is for the sake of the Creator, called \u201cupward,\u201d as our sages said, \u201cKnow what is above you\u201d (<em>Avot<\/em>, Chapter 1). At that time, he sees that he was born an uneducated person, and then his work to walk on the path of truth begins. At that time, it is said, \u201cEven if the whole world tells you that you are righteous, be wicked in your own eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 1979 \u201cWhen an ox or a sheep or a goat is born.\u201d A day-old ox is called \u201can ox,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":6246,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"topic":[26],"class_list":["post-12458","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-rabash"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kabbalah | 405. 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