Amulet for Judah ben Simḥah

If you wish to know and understand what will be in each and every year, take a hieratic papyrus and cut it into slips and write in hieratic with a mixture of ink and myrrh each and every possibility…

Blessed be the great name of the one who, in the beginning of His wisdom, created heaven and earth, and who did not reveal His wisdom to human beings, but gave it to the ministering angels, and the…

. . . [If the New Year falls] in the constellation of Aries, every person [in whose name there is a letter mem], or an alef or bet or kaf, should be apprehensive of harm and illness for three months…

Because hum[an beings] . . . in the holy spirit, are separate from cattle, as it is written: Ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds [of the sky, and they will tell you] (Job 12…

Rabbi Akiba asked Rabbi Eliezer the Great: How is the Prince of the Presence adjured to descend to earth and to reveal to humanity the secrets of above and below and the profundity [see Psalms 95:4]…

He said: The one who is born under the sign of Libra on Sunday, in the [hour] of Jupiter or the Moon—when he is born in these two hours, he is only born as a small [child], and yellow, and he will…