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In a dream, in a night vision, while [I was] asleep upon [my] bed during my imprisonment, a voice called in my ears. The voice was the voice of Jacob, like the voice of my father, may his memory be…
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Abraham Yagel
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1578
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On the night of Simhat Torah 5575 [1814], the Seer closeted himself in his room on the second story of his home. The one window overlooking the wide Jewish street was open; it was very near to the…
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Urye Kahan
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1867
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In the year 5332 [1572], we went out in the fields and we passed the grave of a gentile that was more than a thousand years old. His Animus was seen on his tombstone and he tried to harm me and kill…
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Ḥayim Vital
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
16th Century
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It happened one day that Sabbatai Zevi returned from Egypt with his wife. As he entered Gaza, the prophet Nathan cried out with a loud voice: “This is the saviour of Israel, the messiah of the God of…
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Abraham Cuenque
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
Date:
ca. 1692
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And the sages have stated, in regard to the reward of those who serve the Almighty and carry out His will in this world, in Song of Songs Rabbah 6:8: Anyone who occupies himself with the Torah in this…
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Aaron Berekhiah of Modena
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Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (Modena, Italy)
Date:
1626
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One moment of silence, please. If you please. I
would like to say something. He walked
right past me. I could have touched the hem
of his mantle. I did not touch it. Who could have
known what I did…
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Natan Zach
Places:
Haifa, Israel
Date:
1960
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Three Idlers [finish chanting]:
Why, oh why,
Did the soul descend
From the highest height
To the deepest end?
The greatest fall
Contains the upward flight.
[A long pause. All three sit motionless…
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S. An-ski
Places:
Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1913–1917
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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)
Date:
16th Century
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While my body, in its restlessness, yearned for distances but always inevitably returned to its point of departure, my soul, lacking repose, yearned to travel far into the mighty distances of the…
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Pinḥas Sadeh
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1958
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That year my wife, Hannah, became extremely ill and one Sabbath she was in a coma and close to death. At night, at the conclusion of the Sabbath, we approached her to witness the departure of the…
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Ḥayim Vital
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
Second Half of the 16th Century