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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
Sefer ha-ḥezyonot (The Book of Visions): On the Afterlife
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That year my wife, Hannah, became extremely ill and one Sabbath she was in a coma and close to death. At night, at the conclusion of the Sabbath, we approached her to witness the departure of the…

Contributor:

Ḥayim Vital

Places:

Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)

Date:

Second Half of the 16th Century

Subjects:

Health, Mysticism, Afterlife, Death, Dreams

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, (Auto)biography, Magic & Mysticism