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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
Minḥat Yehudah (The Offering of Judah): Commentary on Ma‘arekhet ha-elohut (The Divine Hierarchy)
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When I Judah, the son of my master, the wise and righteous R. Jacob ḥayyat, peace be upon him, was in Spain, I tasted a little honey, and my eyes were enlightened. And I took it upon myself to seek…

Contributor:

Judah Ḥayyat

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

ca. 1495–1498

Subjects:

Mysticism, Exile, Hunger, Poverty, Oral Torah

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, (Auto)biography, Magic & Mysticism