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One who uses the Ineffable Name in this world will have a great punishment, and the reason for this is that he mentions holy letters in impurity, and combines that which is holy with that which is…
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Moses Cordovero
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1549
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If you prostrate yourself over the graves of the righteous, you need to have the proper intention, so that through your prostration, you will cause the soul of that righteous person to…
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Isaac Luria
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
Second Half of the 17th Century
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The Birth of the Ba‘al Shem Tov
One of the greatest phenomena, running like a thread throughout the spiritual history of the Jewish people, is mysticism, a remnant of ancient mythology, which could…
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Avraham Kahana
Places:
Zhitomir, Russian Empire
(Zhytomyr, Ukraine)
Date:
1900
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The earth made noise as did the heavens, and the doorposts are shaking at the voice crying out that it would be wrong to publish hidden and sealed materials and to break through the fence established…
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Isaac de Lattes
Places:
Pesaro, Duchy of Urbino
(Pesaro, Italy)
Date:
1558
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Rabbi Eleazar opened the palm of his hand
and let the fertile, virgin earth escape
He took pure water from the mountain spring
recited the two hundred and twenty-one alphabetical combinations
and…
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Angelina Muñiz-Huberman
Places:
Mexico City, Mexico
Date:
1992
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I propose to set forth the faith of our ancestors—our prophets, our sages—forgotten by us these thousand years, because of the long duration of our exile. This faith was known to the Tannaim and most…
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Abraham Michael Cardoso
Places:
Tripoli, Ottoman Empire
(Tripoli, Lebanon)
Date:
ca. 1670–1672
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The superiority of this science was related in the Zohar at the end of the ‘Idra in section Naso.
It was taught:
Rabbi Simeon cried, raised his voice, and said:
“Woe.” With these words which are…
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Moses Cordovero
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
Second Half of the 16th Century
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It was like this in the garden:
Ben Azzai looked and died,
Ben Zoma looked and went mad;
Akiba and I went forth in peace,
but they said I cut down the young plants.
I said that one is two…
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Norman Finkelstein
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
2000
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A. Many great, wise, genius, and righteous men beseeched me to publish in a book that which I received from scribes and…
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Yisroel Berger
Places:
Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
(Bucharest, Romania)
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St. Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1909
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Blessed are you, Bar Yohai,
you were anointed
by your brethren with the oil of joy:
Bar Yohai,
with the oil of a sacred share
you were anointed through holy measure,
sanctity’s bud you wore…
Contributor:
Simeon Ibn Lavi
Places:
Tripoli, Ottoman Empire
(Tripoli, Lebanon)
Date:
16th Century