RT Article
T1 Three Charms for Killing Adolf Hitler
JF Aries
VO 17
IS 2
SP 171
OP 214
A1 Harari, Yuval 1957-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1561971979
AB This article deals with mystical-magical activities carried out in Jerusalem by kabbalists and rabbis during the years of the Third Reich as part of their struggle against the Nazi threat. It focuses on a page written for Eliyahu Mizrahi Dehuki, a relatively unknown Jerusalem expert in practical Kabbalah, containing three magic recipes for killing Adolf Hitler. The article opens with a discussion of the tradition of practical Kabbalah and the role of aggressive magic within it. It then proceeds to describe the two-pronged (defensive and aggressive) struggle that Jerusalem kabbalists and rabbis conducted against the Nazi foe during WW2. The discussion then turns to Eliyahu Mizrahi and to the page that was sent to him. The concluding section meticulously examines these magic recipes and the ritual acts they offer in the context of other insider sources, attesting to the nature and the symbolic language of Jewish aggressive magic.
K1 Jewish magic : practical Kabbalah : harmful magic : magic recipes : ritual violence : WW2 : Eliyahu Mizrahi Dehuki : Jerusalem kabbalists
DO 10.1163/15700593-01702002