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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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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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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)
Date:
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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These are the words of the covenant [see, e.g., Deuteronomy 28:69], the twenty-four enactments that the people of action of the holy society, which is in the holy city of Safed, may it be built and…
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Safed Kabbalists
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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ca. 1577
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Concerning the matter of the ten tribes, my dear sir should know that in Egypt, there is a place that is called Sawakin, almost a thirty-day distance away—from there, some say it is a three-day…
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Abraham ben Eliezer Halevi
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1527/28
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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
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1549
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For man to resemble his Creator according to the secret of the Supernal Crown he must possess, too, many of the chief qualities of the divine providence.
- The quality of humility includes all qualities…
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Moses Cordovero
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
Mid–16th Century
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And now I will reveal to you why we call the Sabbath before Passover “the Great Sabbath.”
Know that the minister of Egypt is Aries [the ram], and Scorpio, which is with Aries, and its angel is Samael…
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Solomon Molkho, Solomon Molkho
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First Quarter of the 16th Century