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Sha‘ar ha-mitsvot (The Gate of Commandments)
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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…

Contributor:

Ḥayim Vital

Places:

Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)

Date:

Second half of the 16th Century

Subjects:

Kabbalah, Mysticism, Gender, Holidays, Sabbath

Categories:

Magic & Mysticism, Mystical Texts
Derashot (Sermons)
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And now I will reveal to you why we call the Sabbath before Passover “the Great Sabbath.” Know that the minister of Egypt is Aries [the ram], and Scorpio, which is with Aries, and its angel is Samael…

Contributor:

Solomon Molkho

Places:

Kingdom of Italy (Italy)

Date:

First Quarter of the 16th Century

Subjects:

Sermon, Sabbath, Mysticism, Passover, Messianism

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