{"id":14404,"date":"2026-01-09T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=14404"},"modified":"2026-01-09T22:24:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:24:01","slug":"a-desire-for-levirate-marriage","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/a-desire-for-levirate-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"851. A Desire for Levirate Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cA certain heretic said to Raban Gamliel: \u2018You are a people with whom its God has performed levirate marriage,\u2019 as it is written, \u2018In their flock and in their cattle they shall go and seek the Lord, but they shall not find; He has slipped away from them\u2019\u201d (Hosea 5). He said to you, \u201cYou fool! Is it written \u2018released for them\u2019? It is written \u2018released from them,\u2019 while a sister-in-law whom the brothers released, could there be any validity in her?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that if the brother-in-law releases the sister-in-law, since the sister-in-law does not want to perform levirate marriage, it means nothing. But if the brother-in-law does not want, he releases the sister-in-law from the brother-in-law. The Creator releases Himself from them, meaning He received the release from them. 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