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Under the roof of the oldest synagogue in Prague (the Altneuschul), because of the belief that misfortune would meet the workers, there is preserved, in its primeval form and color, a piece of trunk…
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Ludwig A. Frankl
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Vienna, Austrian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1836
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There are faces that God created to enchant you at first glance. Adore me, the face proclaims, and you adore it without knowing…
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Sholem Aleichem
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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This is no fairy tale, it really happened.
In our shtetl, there was a bright young man named Móyshele. He was as smart as a whip, and also a good-for-nothing. Then all at once he disappeared, and no…
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Sonya the Wise Woman (Sonya Naimark)
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Mogilev, Russian Empire (Mogilev, Belarus)
Date:
1908
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Unknown
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ca. 1400–1599
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For opening the heart; tested and tried. Take a new glass and write on it:
I adjure you, Patḥiel, to open my heart to all the Torah to learn all that I desire. That my heart should be as an…
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Unknown
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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17th or 18th Century
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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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Unknown
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1614
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Moses ben Elijah Gallena
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Crete, Republic of Venice (Crete, Greece)
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1715
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Artist Unknown
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ca. 1725
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This remarkable manuscript of practical kabbalah was written in Eastern Europe in the mid-eighteenth century; at the end of that century it was owned by the Radvil Hasidic dynasty. In contrast to…
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Artist Unknown
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ca. 1740
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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
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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Second half of the 16th Century