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I have realized, and my attention has been drawn to the fact that many people say that the salvation of women is not on the same level as that of men, for their [women’s] knowledge is limited. They…
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Gedaliah Ibn Yaḥya
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ca. 1550
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Grandma Rekhl—my mother’s mother, whose name the members of the household and the people of the town all pronounced with exactness: Rekhl precisely with an “e,”…
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Ḥayim Tchemerinsky
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1917
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By way of our prayers and our practical commandments that we perform below, we need to cause a coupling of the male and the female, and we raise them up…
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Ḥayim Vital
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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Second half of the 16th Century
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Sivan, 5529 Livorno [1769]
In the name of G-d, the G-d of mercy!
In such measure as light exceeds darkness, such is the superiority of the people of this country over the people of Spain…
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Isaac Euchel
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1790
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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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These are the conditions for a proper wife so that she will be cherished by her husband, so that he will not come to set his…
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Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Itmari
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
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1712
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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
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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Second half of the 16th Century