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>Zohar Il, 43a, explaining the principle of redemption of the first-born of an ass by offering a lamb says:
>The ass means non-Jew, who is to be redeemed by the offering of a lamb, which is the dispersed sheep of Israel. But if he refuses to be redeemed, then break his skull... They should be taken out of the book of the living, for it is said about them: He who sins against me, | shall take out of the book of life.
>And in Zohar (I, 38b and 39a):
>In the palaces of the fourth heaven are those who lamented over Sion and Jerusalem, and all those who destroyed idolatrous nations... and those who killed off people who worship idols are clothed in purple garments so that they may be recognized and honored
>For the present, to the Kabbalist even the quaint and commonplace liturgy of the synagogue has a much deeper, far-reaching significance than we had supposed:
>The Zohar:
>The feast of Tabernacles is the period when Israel triumphs over the other peoples of the world. That is why during this feast we seize the loulab and carry it as a trophy to show that we have conquered all the other people, known as ‘populace’... (Toldoth Noah 63b)
