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46) The following Mitzva is to discuss the one who confiscates his possessions to a priest, as it is written, “Every devoted thing in Israel shall be yours.” It is also written, “Every thing that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer unto the Lord, both of man and beast.” When you replace the [Hebrew] letters of womb, it is Reish–Mem–Het, the number of man’s 248 organs. It is said about them, “In wrath remember compassion.” After a man is angered and devotes that beast to himself, another god, a serpent is on it, as it is said about him, “Cursed are you from among all cattle.” And he is to man’s left. This is why the Creator commanded giving her to the priest, who is mercy and blessing, to surrender the anger because that bitterness had awakened in that man, which is the sword of the angel of death. This is why the right awakened toward him with mercy and the anger of the left surrendered, as it is written, “In wrath remember compassion.”

47) One who is angry has the potion of death in the anger. It is written about him, “All who is angry, it is as though he is committing idolatry,” since the Sitra Achra burns man. And in that beast which he gives to the priest, the womb departs him. SAM is another God; it is confiscation. And his Nukva is a curse, included in all the curses in Mishneh Torah [Repetition of the Torah]. And the Creator blessed in the whole Torah, and all the blessings are from the right, where the priest is gripped. This is the reason why every thing devoted should be given to the priest, who burns it in the fire and consumes it from the world. And the fire of the left subsides in the right, in water, and in it, the wrath of the King subsides.