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A yihud [magical-theurgic “unification”] that my teacher, of blessed memory, taught me to remove an evil spirit: [For] sometimes the soul of an evil person is yet unable to get into Gehinnom because…
Contributor:
Ḥayim Vital
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
16th Century
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That year my wife, Hannah, became extremely ill and one Sabbath she was in a coma and close to death. At night, at the conclusion of the Sabbath, we approached her to witness the departure of the…
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Ḥayim Vital
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
Second Half of the 16th Century
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When [Isaac Luria] was sick, he blessed each companion with a suitable blessing for him, in accordance with the spark of his soul. R. ḥayim Vital was not there with them at the time of the blessing…
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Unknown
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1534–1572
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I swear by the Eternal God and by His ten most holy commandments, which were given on Mount Sinai through Moses as lawgiver after the people had been freed from their bondage in Egypt, that I have…
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Nicolas de Nicolay, Francesco Ziletti, Amatus Lusitanus
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1559
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I was in the midst of a large group of people who were there, close to a hundred people, among them scholars and heads of communities. And two men, who knew adjurations and many things, approached the…
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Elijah Falkon
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1571
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In the year 5332 [1572], we went out in the fields and we passed the grave of a gentile that was more than a thousand years old. His Animus was seen on his tombstone and he tried to harm me and kill…
Contributor:
Ḥayim Vital
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
16th Century