Daily Zohar # 4538 – Acharei Mot – Throw a bone to the dog

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Zohar Acharei Mot
Continued from previous DZ
#135
The holy people give it what it needs, “שעיר,” namely a goat, and this is what “Esau my brother is a hairy (שעיר) man” implies. He represents the aspect of the Sitra Achra (Other Side). And it has male and female aspects; just as there are male and female aspects on the side of holiness, so too are there on the side of impurity. It’s like saying, “Throw a bone to a dog, and it will lick the dust from your feet.” Similarly, they give a goat to the Sitra Achra, and it becomes an advocate.

#136
They asked Ben Zoma, “Is it permissible for us to castrate a dog?” He said to them,
Leviticus 22:24
“וּמָעוּךְ וְכָתוּת וְנָתוּק וְכָרוּת לֹא תַקְרִיבוּ לַיהוָה וּבְאַרְצְכֶם לֹא תַעֲשׂוּ.”
“You shall not offer to YHVH what is bruised or crushed, or torn or cut; nor shall you make any offering of them in your land.”
It means you shall not do anything in your land, even to a dog. Just as the world needs this, the world also needs that. That is, there is nothing on earth that does not have a purpose. Therefore, we have learned, “וְהִנֵּה טוֹב מְאֹד” “And behold, it was very good,” this refers to the Angel of Death, who should not be eliminated from the world because the world needs him. Even though it is written about the Angel of Death,
Isaiah 56:11
“וְהַכְּלָבִים עַזֵּי נֶפֶשׁ לֹא יָדְעוּ שָׂבְעָה וְהֵמָּה רֹעִים לֹא יָדְעוּ הָבִין כֻּלָּם לְדַרְכָּם פָּנוּ אִישׁ לְבִצְעוֹ מִקָּצֵהוּ.”
“Yes, they are greedy dogs That never have enough. And they are shepherds Who cannot understand; They all look to their own way, Every one for his own gain, From his own territory.”
It is not good for them to be eradicated from the world. Everything is needed, both good and evil.

#137
For this reason, on this day, we are to throw a bone to a dog, the goat for Azazel. While it is dragging the bone, someone may enter the king’s palace, and there will be none to harm him, because the accuser is preoccupied with his gift, and afterward, it will still wag its tail at him. That is, it will act as an advocate.

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