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A propaganda tool that Arafat quickly seized upon.
April 19, 2019
The Secrets of an 18th-Century Kabbalistic Cookbook
A Large Volume of Virtues, Medicines, Amulets, and Fortunes.
Composed by a Polish Jew identified only as Elḥanan—probably in the 1730s—Virtues and Medicines: A Large Volume of Virtues, Medicines, Amulets, and Fortunes consists of 290 handwritten folio pages dealing with what scholars call the “practical kabbalah”: mystical knowledge, in this case in the form of recipes, that could be used to cure diseases, bring material or marital success, ward away demons, and so forth. Agata Paluch describes its contents:
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The Palestinian Authority’s Self-Inflicted Fiscal Crisis, and What the U.S. Can Do about It
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The Secrets of an 18th-Century Kabbalistic Cookbook
A Large Volume of Virtues, Medicines, Amulets, and Fortunes.