The association of hares with homosexuality is not unknown in late medieval kabbalah. An example of a clear adoption from a Christian context; Eleazar b. Moses Azikri (1533-1600) wrote that one who is involved in homosexual relations is reincarnated as a hare (Azikri 1836:141).
Epstein, Marc Michael
Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature
Penn State Press, 1997
p. 132
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