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Everything proceeds from above, from the world of emanation, excepting no point in the lower world. And even a tree, and a stone, and everything comes from above; and this is the procession of…
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Shabbetai Sheftel Horowitz the Elder
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1616
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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…
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Ḥayim Vital
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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16th Century
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Abraham Bar Jacob
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1700
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Westheim, Holy Roman Empire (Westheim, Germany)
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ca. 1750
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Genesis 1:26. Let us make man in our image, as our likeness.
Genesis 9:6. For in the image of God made he man.
Deuteronomy 4:15. And guard ye your souls greatly, for ye saw no manner of…
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Menasseh Ben Israel
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1633
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To the great master, the stronghold and tower, his name is increasingly great, he is my beloved master, the juice of my pomegranate (Song of Songs 8:2), my olive brimming with oil, Josheb-basshebeth a…
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Yekutiel Gordon
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
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1729
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The love of the Sabbath is the pith of my praise.
“Remember and Keep” provides the rule,
Preparing my way for bridegroom and bride,
For Intellect and Soul, my celestial companions.
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Shalem Shabazi
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Taiz, Yemeni Zaidi State (Taiz, Yemen)
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ca. 1679/80
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Act II, Scene 3
Jezebel [Goes up to meet Ahab]:You have seen a conversion yourself? Do tell me!
Ahab [Bewildered]:Oh Jezebel! I am dying! I cannot breathe!
[Sinks into a chair.]
What is this? Am I…
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Avraam Papo
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Ottoman Empire (Bulgaria, Bulgaria)
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1898
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During the first half of the seventeenth century some extravagant notions of the near approach of the Messianic time, and more especially of the redemption of the Jews and their return to Jerusalem…
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Henry Malter
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1906
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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
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Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania (Bucharest, Romania)
Date:
1909