Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Michael A. Morgan (translation/English), Mordecai Margaliot and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on:	ט׳ באב ה׳תשפ״א (2021-07-17)
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Categories:	Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Yotser Ohr
Tags:	Late Antiquity, פיוטים piyyutim, יוצר אור yotser ohr, the higher the fewer, Needing Vocalization
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • A hymn of praise found in the description of the 7th dome of heaven in Sefer ha-Razim . . .

הספר ששמשו בו הכשדים | Theurgy of the Kasdim, an astral-magic treatise on the seven angels of the week

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Moses Gaster (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on:	ג׳ באב ה׳תשפ״א (2021-07-12)
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Categories:	Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Theurgy
Tags:	Magic, Angels, Astrological, angelology, entering magical territory, ritual power, magical recipes
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • A work of Jewish astrology and magic containing recipes specific to the angelic rulers of each day of the week. . . .

בִּרְכָּת הָבָּיִת | Birkat Habayit: Blessing for the Home

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on:	ז׳ בכסלו ה׳תשע״ו (2015-11-18)
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Categories:	Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Home, 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
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • 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. . . .

Υγρομαντεια | The Hygromancy of Solomon (ca. 5th c. CE)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Emily Kesselman (transcription), Pablo A. Torijano (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on:	כ״ח בתמוז ה׳תש״פ (2020-07-19)
Terms:	Fair Use Right (17 U.S. Code §107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use)
Categories:	Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets
Tags:	Magic, Astrological, 5th century C.E., 43rd century A.M., ritual power
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • A guide to the activities one might engage upon in every hour of the week corresponding with their ruling planet, numinous and cthonic power. . . .

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 (translation), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), James Alan Montgomery (translation), Richard Gottheil (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on:	כ״ז באב ה׳תש״פ (2020-08-16)
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Categories:	Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Home, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
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
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • 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. . . .

אײן אנשפראכע געגען עין הרע | An Incantation against the Ayin haRa (1896)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown Author(s) and Baruch Jean Thaler (translation)
Shared on:	כ״ז בסיון ה׳תשע״ו (2016-07-03)
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Categories:	Well-being, health, and caregiving, Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Theurgy
Tags:	Healing, danger, shamanic praxis, predatory gaze, incantation, אליהו הנביא Eliyahu haNavi, עין הרע evil eye, historiola, Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • This tkhine offers a formula for providing relief to a very ill person, and as such, should only be used as a supplement to recommendations provided by an expert physician or nurse. The source of the tkhine is Tkhine of a Highly Respected Woman, Budapest, 1896; and transcribed from The Merit of Our Mothers בזכות אמהות A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers, compiled by Tracy Guren Klirs, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992. . . .

שִׁמּוּשׁ תְּהִלִּים‬ | Shimush Tehillim (the Theurgical Use of Psalms), attributed to Hai ben Sherira Gaon

Contributor(s):	Hai Ben Sherira Gaon and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Shared on:	ט״ז באייר ה׳תשע״ה (2015-05-04)
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Categories:	Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Theurgy
Tags:	Magic, prophylactic, apotropaic prayers of protection, Needing Translation (into English)
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • The Shimmush Tehillim is a medieval work providing prescriptive theurgical associations for Psalms and verses from Psalms. It has been historically attributed to Rav Hai Gaon (939-1038 CE) but any definitive statement of authorship is lacking. The suggestion that portions of the Shimush Tehillim were authored during the late Geonic period in Iraq isn’t implausible. We also know that Hai Gaon was knowledgeable of Hekhalot writings that should at least be considered part of the same thought world as the Shimmush Tehillim. Writings found in the Shimush Tehillim have been found in manuscripts dating from the 12th century. This digital transcription of Shimush Tehillim derives from Elias Klein Békéscsaba’s 1936 compilation. This edition should not be considered a critical text, as earlier editions certainly exist. Not all of the Psalms are identified as having a particular theurgical use. . . .

מימיני מיכאל | “Mikhael is on my right,” an apotropaic invocation of angelic protection in the Bedtime Shema from the Maḥzor Vitry (ca. 11th c.)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (translation), Dan Levene, Dalia Marx and Simḥah ben Shmuel of Vitry
Shared on:	כ״ג באייר ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-16)
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Categories:	Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Bedtime Shema
Tags:	danger, night, sleep, Angels, Before Sleep, Angelic Protection, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., שכינה Shekhinah, apotropaic prayers of protection, Angels of Healing
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • An “angels on all sides” formula included with the Bedtime Shema service in the Maḥzor Vitry. . . .

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 (translation), Dan Levene and Dalia Marx
Shared on:	י״ח באייר ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-12)
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Categories:	Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Bedtime Shema, Home
Tags:	Angels, prophylactic, Angelic Protection, שכינה Shekhinah, mid-first millennium CE, apotropaic prayers of protection, קמעות qame'ot (amulets), amulet bowls
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • 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)
Shared on:	ט״ו בכסלו ה׳תשפ״א (2020-11-30)
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Categories:	Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Home, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth, 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
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • 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
Shared on:	כ״ח באדר ה׳תש״פ (2020-03-24)
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Categories:	Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Epidemics & Pandemics, Home
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
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • A popular prophylactic amulet in the event of an epidemic. . . .

אסו ית ארסינואי | Two healing prayers for Arsinoë’s recovery (Amulets 80.AM.55.1 & 80.AM.55.2, J. Paul Getty Museum)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Roy Kotansky (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on:	ד׳ באב ה׳תשפ״א (2021-07-13)
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Categories:	Well-being, health, and caregiving, Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets
Tags:	Angels, Aramaic, Late Antiquity, קמעות ḳame'ot, 3rd century C.E., angelology, entering magical territory, Angels of Healing, 41st century A.M.
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • Healing prayers written on a pair of amulets for the recovery of a woman named Arsinoë . . .

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