Mif‘alot Elohim (The Works of God)

Joel Ba‘al Shem Heilprin

16th Century

A baby that has fallen from a high place and become mute, his mother should take his hand and place it in her womb and afterwards thrust that hand into the mouth of the baby. After that, the woman herself should place her hand in her womb and then place it in the mouth of the baby. I received this from an expert who has tried this. However, it must be not with delay, only forthwith and immediately the woman should do the above. If his mother is unavailable, then another woman may do the same.

Translated by

J. H.

Chajes

Other work by Heilprin: Sefer toledot adam (1720).

Credits

Joel Ba‘al Shem Heilprin, Mif‘alot Elohim (The Works of God) (Zolkiew, 1710). Republished as: Eliyahu Baʻal-Shem, mi-Vermaiza, and Yo’el Baʻal-Shem, mi-Zamoshtsh, Sefer Mifʻalot Elohim, ed. Moshe Hillel (Jerusalem: Mekhon Bene Yisakhar, 1994), p. 112.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.