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Auction 27 · Lot 311
(MEDICINE)
- Estimate
- $1,000–$1,500
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
(Eastern Europe)
Publication
(18th Century)
Description
(Folk Medicine). Refu'os Bikhel [Booklet of Cures]. Hebrew, Yiddish and Polish (in Hebrew characters). ff. 130-143. 8vo. * Incantation against enemies / R. El'azar Azikri. Yedid Nefesh (Hymn). Hebrew. pp. 4. 8vo. * Kabbalistic prayer to be recited after the study vigil Thursday night (from anonymous Chemdath ha-Yamim). Beseeches the arrival of Messiah son of Joseph. Hebrew. pp. 4. 8vo
summary
RECIPES OF PRACTICAL KABBALAH
The wisdom of Kabbalah or Jewish mysticism has long been divided into “kabbalah iyunith” (theoretical kabbalah) versus “kabbalah ma'asith” (applied or practical kabbalah). Many of the recipes in this booklet belong to the latter division; they include “seguloth” or kabbalistic charms as well as elements of folk medicine.
See Eliezer Schulman, Sefath Yehudith-Ashkenazith ve-Sifruthah (Riga, 1913), pp. 208-211; E. Sosnovic, “Materialen tzu der Yiddischer Folks-Medizin” in Yiddish Filologie, Vol. I (1924), pp. 160-168, 168-176