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One who uses the Ineffable Name in this world will have a great punishment, and the reason for this is that he mentions holy letters in impurity, and combines that which is holy with that which is…
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Moses Cordovero
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1549
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If you prostrate yourself over the graves of the righteous, you need to have the proper intention, so that through your prostration, you will cause the soul of that righteous person to…
Contributor:
Isaac Luria
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
Second Half of the 16th Century
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In the year 5332 [1572], we went out in the fields and we passed the grave of a gentile that was more than a thousand years old. His Animus was seen on his tombstone and he tried to harm me and kill…
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Ḥayim Vital
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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16th Century
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Since the last saying has made it necessary to speak of things, which pertain to the eternal mysteries, namely the ways of kabbalah, I will not hide from the reader what is at the tip of my…
Contributor:
Moses Isserles
Places:
Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1570
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The superiority of this science was related in the Zohar at the end of the ‘Idra in section Naso.
It was taught:
Rabbi Simeon cried, raised his voice, and said:
“Woe.” With these words which are…
Contributor:
Moses Cordovero
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
Second Half of the 16th Century
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I propose to set forth the faith of our ancestors—our prophets, our sages—forgotten by us these thousand years, because of the long duration of our exile. This faith was known to the Tannaim and most…
Contributor:
Abraham Michael Cardoso
Places:
Tripoli, Ottoman Empire (Tripoli, Lebanon)
Date:
ca. 1670–1672