{"id":12739,"date":"2025-12-18T22:48:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12739"},"modified":"2025-12-18T22:48:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:48:34","slug":"man-is-born-a-wild-ass-donkey","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/man-is-born-a-wild-ass-donkey\/","title":{"rendered":"544. Man Is Born a Wild Ass [Donkey]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>May 5, 1977<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is written in&nbsp;<em>The Zohar<\/em>&nbsp;(<em>Emor<\/em>, Item 59) about the verse, \u201cWhen an ox or a sheep or a goat is born,\u201d it asks, \u201cIt does not say \u2018a calf or a lamb or a he-goat or a kid [young goat],\u2019 but rather \u2018an ox or a sheep or a goat.\u2019 It explains that what she has in the end, she has when she is born.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is, man is not so: What he has in the end, he does not have in the beginning because \u201cMan is born a wild ass.\u201d The reason is that a beast means that it cares only for itself and has no feeling of others. When one is born with the will to receive, he has no passion to change his ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence, what he has in the end, he also has in the beginning. But man is not so. Although \u201cA man is born a wild ass,\u201d in the end he will achieve the degree of \u201cman,\u201d meaning with sensation of others. By this he will come to feel Godliness, which is called \u201cKnow the God of your father and serve Him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt shall remain seven days under its mother.\u201d&nbsp;<em>The Zohar<\/em>&nbsp;interprets that it is so that that power will settle in him, which was appointed over him and will exist in him. By what will it exist in him? When one Shabbat [Sabbath] is over him \u2026 for there is no existence to people unless in the light of Shabbat, as it is written, \u201cAnd on the seventh day, God concluded His work, which He had done,\u201d and afterward, it is written, \u201cIt shall be accepted as a sacrifice of an offering by fire to the Lord.\u201d This is what the&nbsp;<em>Sulam<\/em>&nbsp;[Ladder commentary on&nbsp;<em>The Zohar<\/em>] interprets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding the matter that there is no existence to the six days of action except through the light of Shabbat, it is because Shabbat is called a \u201csimilitude of the next world,\u201d and \u201cthe next world\u201d means \u201cthe purpose of creation.\u201d As long as it has not been revealed over the work, called \u201csix days of action,\u201d regarded as the correction of creation, the wholeness is not apparent on the correction if the purpose of the correction has not been revealed, when a person sees that the purpose is on the correction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 5, 1977 It is written in&nbsp;The Zohar&nbsp;(Emor, Item 59) about the verse, \u201cWhen an ox or a sheep or [&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-12739","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 | 544. 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