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Sha‘ar ma’amare Rashbi (The Gate of the Sayings of R. Simeon bar Yohai)
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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…

Contributor:

Ḥayim Vital

Places:

Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)

Date:

Second half of the 16th Century

Subjects:

Kabbalah, Mysticism, Prayer & liturgy, Ethics, Gender

Categories:

Mystical Texts, Ethics
The Hermit
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[Vocabulary list in (from right to left) Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian, with notes in French and English]CavernAntreПещераהאֶהלעמעְרָָהTo miss(the aim)ManquerНе пѳпадатьвъ цвль,פערפעהלעןפעהל שיעסעןהחַט…

Contributor:

Israel Ḥayim Taviov

Places:

Riga, Russian Empire (Riga, Latvia)

Date:

1896

Subjects:

Jewish languages, Israel/Israelis, Prayer & liturgy, Charity, Ethics

Categories:

Children & young adult literature
The Physician’s Prayer
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[ . . . ] Since, therefore, Thou hast favored me with kindness and hast crowned me with honor and glory and Thou hast made me worthy of knowing a bit of the science of medicine, therefore I wish to…

Contributor:

Jacob Tsahalon

Places:

Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)

Date:

1665

Subjects:

Medicine, Health, Ethics, Prayer & liturgy

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Medicine