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Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories:	Home, Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Theurgy
Tags:	19th century C.E., קמעות ḳame'ot, 56th century A.M., Epidemic, Asiatic Cholera, Pandemic, ברכת הבית birkat habayit, קמעות qame'ot (amulets), Needing Attribution
	The Birkat Habayit is perhaps the most popular blessing in the Jewish world, appearing as a hanging amulet inside the entrance of many houses of Jews of all streams. I have added niqud to the blessing and I am very grateful to Gabriel Wasserman for his corrections to my vocalization. . . .

Prayer on Entering a New Habitation, by Rabbi Isaac Henry Myers of Ramsgate (1855)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Isaac Henry Myers
Categories:	Home
Tags:	19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English Jewry, English vernacular prayer, apotropaic prayers of protection, prayers for dedications and commissioning, ברכת הבית birkat habayit
	A prayer on entering a new habitation or dedication for a new home by Rabbi Isaac Henry Myers of Ramsgate. . . .

קמע לשמירה מפני לילית | Apotropaic ward for the protection of pregnant women and infants against Lilith & her minions (CUL MS General 194, Montgomery 1913 Amulet No. 42)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (English translation), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), James Alan Montgomery (translation), Richard Gottheil (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories:	Home, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth, Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets
Tags:	prophylactic, קמעות ḳame'ot, infants, Angelic Protection, prayers concerning children, apotropaic prayers of protection, entering magical territory, prayers for pregnant women, אליהו הנביא Eliyahu haNavi, epical narrative as ward, historiola, Angels of Healing
	An apotropaic ward for the protection of women in their pregnancy and of infant children against an attack from Lilith and her minions, containing the story witnessing her oath to the prophet, Eliyahu along with one variation of her many names. . . .

אֵל מָלֵא רַחֲמִים | El Malé Raḥamim – Interfaith Memorial Service for the Homeless, by Rabbi Victor Reinstein (2014)

Contributor(s):	Victor Reinstein
Categories:	Home
Tags:	ecumenical prayers, אל מלא רחמים El Malé Raḥamim, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Memorial prayers, English vernacular prayer, interfaith prayer, homeless and unhoused, paraliturgical el malé raḥamim
	This paraliturgical adaptation of the El Malei prayer for an Interfaith Memorial Service for the Homeless was offered by Rabbi Victor Reinstein in 2014. . . .

גבריאל מימינהון | “Gavriel is on the right,” an apotropaic invocation of angelic protection in the amulet bowl SD12 (ca. mid-first millennium C.E.)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (English translation), Dan Levene and Dalia Marx
Categories:	Home, Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Bedtime Shema
Tags:	Angels, prophylactic, Angelic Protection, שכינה Shekhinah, mid-first millennium CE, apotropaic prayers of protection, קמעות qame'ot (amulets), amulet bowls
	The text and translation of an amulet bowl discussed in “‘Gabriel is on their Right’: Angelic Protection in Jewish Magic and Babylonian Lore” by Dan Levene, Dalia Marx, and Siam Bharyo in Studia Mesopotamica (Band 1: 2014) pp.185-198. The apotropaic ward found in the amulet bowl, SD 12, contains an “angels on all sides” formula similar to that appearing in the Jewish liturgy of the bedtime shema. . . .

היסטוריולה של סממית וסידרוס | Historiola of Smamit and Sideros, a reconstruction based on Amulet 15 & Amulet Bowl 12a

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories:	Home, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth, Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Theurgy
Tags:	Angels, Late Antiquity, prophylactic, קמעות ḳame'ot, infants, Angelic Protection, prayers concerning children, apotropaic prayers of protection, entering magical territory, prayers for pregnant women, amulet bowls, epical narrative as ward, cold iron, iron in folklore, historiola, Angels of Healing
	A very old tale told for the protection of pregnant women and their infant children as found in amulets from late Antiquity. . . .

קמע לשמירת המגפה | Amulet for Protection from the Plague, attributed to Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum (ca. 19th c.)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Moshe Teitelbaum
Categories:	Home, Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Epidemics & Pandemics
Tags:	19th century C.E., prophylactic, קמעות ḳame'ot, 56th century A.M., Epidemic, apotropaic prayers of protection, קמעות qame'ot (amulets), in the merit of Amtalai bat Karnavu
	A popular prophylactic amulet in the event of an epidemic. . . .

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