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To be given to my dearly beloved and pleasant son-in-law—who fears sin and all whose deeds are worthy—the respected Mr. Falk.
He who delivers this letter, on him be blessing.
From the holy community…
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Barukh Reiniger
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1619
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A baby that has fallen from a high place and become mute, his mother should take his hand and place it in her womb and afterwards thrust that hand into the mouth of the baby. After that, the woman…
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Joel Ba‘al Shem Heilprin
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Zamość, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Zamość, Poland)
Date:
16th Century
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I swear by the Eternal God and by His ten most holy commandments, which were given on Mount Sinai through Moses as lawgiver after the people had been freed from their bondage in Egypt, that I have…
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Nicolas de Nicolay, Francesco Ziletti, Amatus Lusitanus
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1559
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So, to begin in the manner now accepted, in which (by scholarly consensus) the practice is to lay one…
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Servius de Levis, Rodrigo de Castro
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1614
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In correctly understanding the truest theory, there were many opinions; but I will bring two…
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Meir Magino, Tuviah ha-Kohen
Places:
Adrianople, Ottoman Empire
(Edirne, Turkey)
Date:
1707
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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
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1571
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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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Anonymous
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1614
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I dream that I’m standing in the doorway of my house, and I hear shouts, but I don’t want to go in. I’m eleven years old, and my hair is braided down my back.
A man asks me in the language of my…
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Perla Suez
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
2000
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For Jews, social hygiene embraces the entire domain of religious laws and customs of Judaism on maintaining the purity and health of the body. These traditions partially, and certainly at their core…
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Felix Theilhaber
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1927–1930
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Not far from Lódz is a small town called Brzezhin. It has been a town of tailors from the beginning of time. When it was under Russian rule, Brzezhin was a center for manufacturing cheap clothes for…
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Henryk Erlich
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1933