Witch Preventing Birth

Exempla of the Rabbis, No. 412

Curated by Arthur·Told by Maggid·March 24, 2026

412. Witch Preventing Birth. Sef. Hamaasiyot,

ed.Araki Cohen, ch.72. Ben Gorion II, p. 190, 352.

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