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A psalm of David.
Ascribe to the Lord, O divine beings,
ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.
Ascribe to the Lord the glory of His name;
bow down to the Lord, majestic in holiness.
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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In the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and a vision of his mind in bed; afterward he wrote down the dream. Beginning the account, Daniel related the following…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Hellenistic Period, 4th–2nd Century BCE
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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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Sefer Raziel (also known as The Book of Raziel the Angel) is a book of practical kabbalah that may have been composed in the thirteenth century, though scholars believe parts of it date from earlier…
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Moses Mendez Coutinho
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1701
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The essence of divinity is found in every single thing—nothing but it exists. Since it causes every thing to be, no thing can live by anything else. It enlivens them; its existence exists in each…
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Moses Cordovero
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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Second Half of the 16th Century
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I was in the midst of a large group of people who were there, close to a hundred people, among them scholars and heads of communities. And two men, who knew adjurations and many things, approached the…
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Elijah Falkon
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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1571
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For opening the heart; tested and tried. Take a new glass and write on it:
I adjure you, Patḥiel, to open my heart to all the Torah to learn all that I desire. That my heart should be as an…
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Unknown
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London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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17th or 18th Century
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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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More for the aforementioned [recipe so as not to leave empty-handed]: wash your hands and feet in warm water and file the toenail of the left or right hallux with a new knife. Using a needle—not ink…
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1614
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A dream question: clean yourself from all impurity and abstain from eating meat, drinking wine, and lying with a woman. And lie in a clean bed after ritually immersing—a stringent immersion, because…
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Unknown
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1729