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Liturgy for the Ashmoret ha-boker (Morning Watch) Confraternity
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The Zohar, in the portion of Naso on the verse and in the night His song shall be with…

Contributor:

Aaron Berekhiah of Modena

Places:

Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (Modena, Italy)

Date:

1624

Subjects:

Prayer, Piety, Torah study, Kabbalah, Oral Torah

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Prayer & Liturgy, Magic & Mysticism, Mystical Texts
Magid mesharim (Speaker of Truth): Lessons from the Magid
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Is your excessive talk beneficial to you? [ . . . ] And do you consider it proper that you peruse the [weekly Pentateuchal] portion twice in Hebrew and…

Contributor:

Joseph Karo

Places:

Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)

Date:

1530s

Subjects:

Mysticism, Conversion, Women, Oral Torah, Torah study

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, (Auto)biography, Magic & Mysticism
Ma’amarim bi-refu’ah (Chapters on Healing)
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For do not interpretations belong to God? There are many kinds of dreams in the world: dreams that are mostly true and close to prophecy, but the sages said that there are no dreams without idle…

Contributor:

Raphael Mordechai Malki

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

Last Quarter of the 17th Century

Subjects:

Dreams, Sabbath, Torah study, Mysticism, Health

Categories:

Magic & Mysticism, Mystical Texts, Science & Philosophy, Psychology
For Opening the Heart
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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…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)

Date:

17th or 18th Century

Subjects:

Kabbalah, Mysticism, Angels, demons & deities, Torah study, Ritual object

Categories:

Magic & Mysticism, Mystical Texts, Magical Texts