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One who becomes possessed by a demon should recite this adjuration three times, and it [the demon] will leave him, God willing.
In the explicit name [Shem ha-meforash] of the God of Israel may His…
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1614
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The essence of divinity is found in every single thing—nothing but it exists. Since it causes every thing to be, no thing can live by anything else. It enlivens them; its existence exists in each…
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Moses Cordovero
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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Second half of the 16th Century
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The intention of the Supernal Emanator was for the choice [free will] of doing good or evil to be given to those in the lower realm, [and] for them to have reward or punishment…
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Ḥayim Vital
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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Second half of the 16th Century
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David ben Aaron Ibn Ḥasin
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Meknes, Kingdom of Morocco (Meknes, Morocco)
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1737
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Unknown
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ca. 1400–1599
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To know if an evil spirit has possessed a person, utter three times in his right ear:
TsIP"A TsIP"A TRAYY"T GWTAN"T, that is to say: Of the Rock that begat you, you are unmindful, etc. (Deuteronomy 32…
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16th Century
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To remove a demon [sheyd] from the body of a man or woman, or anything into which a male or female demon has entered
Take an empty flask and a white waxen candle, and recite this adjuration in…
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Joseph Tirshom
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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ca. 1550
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May His great name be blessed! Before everything, it occurred to His simple will to create worlds, for there is no king without a people, as it is said: In the multitude of people is the…
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Naphtali Bacharach
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1648
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This is the secret of the teaching of the sages: “When the Holy One, blessed be He, created the world with the attribute of justice, and the world could not subsist—and so too with the attribute of…
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Solomon Ayllon
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London, Kingdom of England (London, United Kingdom)
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1699
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By way of our prayers and our practical commandments that we perform below, we need to cause a coupling of the male and the female, and we raise them up…
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Ḥayim Vital
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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Second half of the 16th Century