150) \u201cAnd Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite.\u201d A Canaanite means a merchant. \u201cAnd she conceived, and bore a son; and he called his name Er.\u201d Judah had three sons, of whom one survived, Shelah. It is written, \u201cJudah went down,\u201d because he bore sons and buried them, which is a big descent and a punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
151) It is written about the first of Judah\u2019s sons, \u201c\u2026and he called his name Er,\u201d in masculine gender. Of the two other boys, it is written, \u201c\u2026and she called his name Onan,\u201d and, \u201c\u2026and called his name Shelah,\u201d in feminine gender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
152) \u201c\u2026that Judah went down from his brothers.\u201d This is so because the moon, Nukva, was covered and descended from her upright degree into another degree, to which the serpent was connected, as it is written, \u201cand went to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.\u201d This means that he separated himself from his brothers in the house of Israel, which are holiness, and conjoined with a foreign man, not from the house of Israel, in whom the serpent was attached, and who had not stopped his filth from the foreigners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
153) \u201cAnd she conceived, and bore a son; and he called his name Er,\u201d and he was bad. The letters of Er and Ra [bad] are the same [in Hebrew], since it comes from the evil inclination. This is why it is written, \u201cand he called his name,\u201d and not, \u201cand his name was called.\u201d With Jacob, it is written, \u201cand his name was called,\u201d since the Creator called him Jacob. But here it is written, \u201chis name was called,\u201d to include the other degree of the filth of impurity that was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
154) Afterwards, it was not sweetened to return to holiness with the other son, as well, until Shelah came, who was the most important. It is written, \u201cAnd Er, Judah’s first-born, was bad in the eyes of the Lord. It is written, \u201cFor the inclination in man’s heart is evil from his youth,\u201d implying wasting of semen. Here, too, it means that he shed blood, that he spilled semen on the ground. For this reason, \u201cand the Lord put him to death.\u201d And it is written, \u201cThen Judah said to Onan, \u2018Go in to your brother\u2019s wife and marry her, and raise up an heir to your brother.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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