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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…
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Simeon Ibn Lavi
Places:
Tripoli, Ottoman Empire (Tripoli, Lebanon)
Date:
16th Century
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I cannot refrain from relating an amazing, true story that I heard from that mouth of sanctity, the most outstanding disciple of our Holy Master, the rebbe, my dear friend—may…
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Israel ben Samuel of Shklov
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1836
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10. And now, with the Lord’s help, we will return to our primary question: We asked you to tell us, according to the opinion of the kabbalists, to whom do we say our prayers, and make all of our…
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Yiḥye Qafeh
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Sana'a, Ottoman Empire (Sanaa, Yemen)
Date:
1912
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Amulets for the evil eye; tested. Write on either a kosher or deerskin parchment, on a day of [reading from] the Torah, before eating anything. And calculate in that hour which day it is and which…
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Unknown
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16th or 17th Century
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And after the rabbi [Joseph Karo] went to Safed he studied in the study house of the rabbi, our master, Jacob Berab, and became a disciple of our master R. Berab, as is written in several places. The…
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David Conforte
Places:
Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
1678
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The words of the perfect scholar, the divine kabbalist, R. Solomon ha-Levi Alkabetz (may the memory of the righteous be for the life of the World-to-Come):
Know that the pious one and myself, his…
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Joseph Karo
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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1530s
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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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Human prayer that is properly intended is above, in the supernal depths, according to the secret of the point of Zion; and there is the secret place of the holy…
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Ḥayim Vital
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
Second half of the 16th Century
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Why this knowledge, which is called “the science of kabbalah” [ḥokhmat ha-kabbalah] contradicts itself, and each one of these names (i.e., “science” and “kabbalah”) is not suitable to it…
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Leone Modena
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1638
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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