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What makes a book like this more than just a collection of excerpts, strung together interchangeably? What makes it a book? If I were to say it had been a matter of selection, who would venture to…
Contributor:
S. Y. Agnon
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1959
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Abraham Ibn Ezra
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Córdoba, Spanish Empire
(Córdoba, Spain)
Date:
18th Century
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Other works by Loanz: Rinat dodim (1600); Mikhol yofi (1695); Aderet Eliyahu: perush ha-Zohar (1998).
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Elijah Loanz
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Wilhermsdorf, Holy Roman Empire
(Wilhermsdorf, Germany)
Date:
1734
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Aernout Naghtegaal
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1683
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Unknown
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ca. 1400–1599
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To remove a demon [sheyd] from the body of a man or woman, or anything into which a male or female demon has entered
Take an empty flask and a white waxen candle, and recite this adjuration in…
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Joseph Tirshom
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1550
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By way of our prayers and our practical commandments that we perform below, we need to cause a coupling of the male and the female, and we raise them up…
Contributor:
Ḥayim Vital
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
Second half of the 16th Century
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Because the ineffable four-letter name of the Tetragrammaton is located in ‘Adam Qadmon, it will be…
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Abraham Cohen de Herrera
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
ca. 1630
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May His great name be blessed! Before everything, it occurred to His simple will to create worlds, for there is no king without a people, as it is said: In the multitude of people is the…
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Naphtali Bacharach
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1648
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This is the secret of the teaching of the sages: “When the Holy One, blessed be He, created the world with the attribute of justice, and the world could not subsist—and so too with the attribute of…
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Solomon Ayllon
Places:
London, Kingdom of England
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1699