{"id":16127,"date":"2026-01-22T15:04:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=16127"},"modified":"2026-01-22T15:04:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:04:51","slug":"and-he-turned-back-and-saw-them","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/and-he-turned-back-and-saw-them\/","title":{"rendered":"And He Turned Back and Saw Them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>71) \u201cAnd he turned back and saw them.\u201d \u201cAnd he turned back\u201d means that he looked behind him whether or not they repented. \u201cAnd saw them\u201d means that he saw in them that no corrected seed would come out of them. \u201cAnd saw them,\u201d meaning that they were made on the night of&nbsp;<em>Yom Kippur<\/em>&nbsp;[Day of Atonement], that then their mother was impregnated with them. 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