Pidyon HaBen, the ancient Jewish ceremony of redeeming the firstborn son, carries deep biblical and rabbinic significance rooted in the Exodus and the command to sanctify the firstborn to God. Rabbinic sources explore the themes of redemption, priesthood, and the special status of the firstborn. This article examines how these traditions point toward the ultimate redemption accomplished by Jesus — the firstborn of all creation who redeems His people.
Pidyon ha-ben….yeshua ha ben…Redemption of the son = Yeshua the Son.
The following quote comes from Simcha Pearlmutter in his testimony
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“I am running out of time, but I want to show you one more thing—another book. This very large book that I have here contains many, many words from the Talmud and from the holy books. It’s completely a Jewish lexicon. And over here, we have, notice it carefully, “Yeshua ha-Ben.” If you see all the columns, this is a Jewish book. There is not a word of English in it, not that I know of. I haven’t seen it yet. And the word “Yeshua ha-Ben.” Now what is Yeshua ha-Ben? Notice, it’s “Yeshua,” the name of the person Yeshua, and then “ha-Ben” means “the Son.” Yeshua, the Son.
But, what does it say? I am going to read it. It is very short. It says, kinui latekis, meaning “a shortened form,” or “a nickname of the ceremony,” shel pidyon ha-ben, “of the redeeming of the firstborn.” You see, in Judaism when a mother gives birth to a first child, and that child is a male and it passes the womb, that child then thirty days later must be redeemed because he doesn’t belong to the mother or the father. He belongs to Hashem, and he must be redeemed. How do we redeem him? With thirty pieces of shekel, thirty pieces of silver. And who is it paid to? The kohen, the High Priest. And then he is redeemed. And that ceremony by the way is called “Yeshua ha-Ben,” because we call the ceremony by the same one. In other words, the ceremony, the name of the ceremony, Yeshua ha-Ben, is the very redeeming feature.
Yes, we paid the money, but we paid the money ceremonially. But the name of the actual ceremony, and every Rabbi will know this and can see it’s the truth, Yeshua ha-Ben. We call it “Yeshua ha-Ben” because he is the redemption of all firstborn sons. Every firstborn son who is a Jew is redeemed by the name of Yeshua the Son at the thirty day ceremony after his birth. I will finish the sentence. Shel pidyon ha-ben, ha-bachor, ha-n’eiras [words missing in transcription] sheloshim yom [words missing in transcription], “which is conducted 30 days after the time of his birth. We call it “Yeshua ha-Ben.”
Between Rome and Babylon: Studies in Jewish Leadership and Society – A’haron Oppenheimer, Nili Oppenheimer pg 252
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