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Torah: | Exodus 13:13 and Exodus 34:20 |
Babylonian Talmud: | Bekhorot 5b |
The Petter Chamor (Hebrew: פטר חמור) or Redemption of the firstborn donkey, is a mitzvah in Judaism in which a male firstborn (bechor) donkey is redeemed by the owner of the donkey giving a lamb or kid to a Kohen. The lamb is not required to be firstborn.
The mitzvah, albeit rare in modern times, is listed as an "obligation of the body" and thus mandatory for diasporic jewry.