Whew. Been super busy with a work project but am now on a short vacation, reading Lasser’s “ Demonizing the Queen of Sheba: Boundaries of Gender and Culture in Postbiblical Judaism and Medieval Islam.”
The method and descriptive quote come from Barzilay, Levinson, and Baumgarten's "Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Northern Europe, 1080-1350: A Sourcebook" (3/3) www.academia.edu/92601189/Jew...
@adnesadeh.bsky.social In the mail today.
Shabbat shalom everyone. Dunno about you but I need it :)
I ran into bit of Jewish love magic of "he loves me, he loves me not" variety documented Yitzhak ben Yitzhak in Chinon, France around 1250. It starts with gematria (numeric values of of the bride and groom's names), math, numerology, and then an astrological look up table. (1/3)
"The method Isaac utilized was to sum up the numerical value of the couple’s names, add sixteen to the amount, then divide the result by nine, until left with a remainder between one and nine. Each number represents a particular planet and thus a particular destiny" (2/3)
One of the Baal Shem Tov's house protection rituals includes reciting certain Psalms after burying quicksilver (mercury) in small jars, sealed in wax, under your doorposts and corners of the house. Check out these small British jars and their description. I wonder if they served a similar purpose?
I'm looking for 17th and 18th century Ashkenazi Jewish jars like this. These jars are 100-200 years and a lot of miles apart, so I don't want to leap to conclusions. But it's interesting.
Here's a link to the small jars on @wikimediafoundation.org Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:19...
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Was listening to Rafe Neis @postrafelite.bsky.social on the Frankely Judaic podcast. Great discussion about talmudic rabbi's understanding of species and generation including the idea that Adne Sadeh and sirens as being the wild/land and water versions of humans.
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Ok...could be? There is an English magic tradition called "witch bottles" that serve a similar protective purpose though they're more likely to hold pins and urine than mercury. They date as early at the late Middle Ages. No idea if those jars are witch jars though.
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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
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Designed to introduce students to the everyday lives of the Jews who lived in the German Empire, northern France, and England from the 11th to the mid-14th centuries, the volume consists of translatio...
