Has. 818; ‘Amude Shlomo on Semag, I, 851; Landshuth, p. xx; Perles, Graetz Jubelschrifit, p. 28. Wuttke, 144, writes of the Germans: ‘‘Gesang und Gebet- biicher werden viel als Zauberschutz gebraucht, W6chnerinnen und Sauglingen ins Bett gesteckt.”

(which attributes the statement concerning the manna chapter to the Jer. Talmud); Yesh Nohalin, 1ob, n. 9; Or Hadash, p. ix; Yesh Nohalin, 13b, 14a.

also made of a verse which begins and ends with “lo” (the reverse of “el’’), pre- sumably Nu. 23:19. Tos. Pes. 111a refers this passage to a prayer by R. Hananel, beginning with “el” and ending with “lo,” but Blau (70-71) considers that both statements refer to the same verses, Nu. 23:22-23, which begin and end with both “el” and “lo” when read forward and backward, respectively.

Adam veHavah, 17:5, p. 127b; Yore Deah, 179: 10.

this work; 7Z, III, 203 f.; RE, XII, 315; Kigur Shelah, 111, 203. Schudt (II, 31:7, p. 191), in the 18th century, testifies to the popularity among German Jews of ‘“‘das aberglaubische Biichlein Schimmusch Tillim, darin der gantze Psalter Davids zu lauter aberglaubischen Dingen verdreht wird.” The use of hymns and psalms in incantations goes back to the ancient Babylonians, and was practiced by Christians as well as Jews. See Daiches, 41; C. Kayser, “Gebrauch von Psalmen zur Zauberei,” <DMG, XLII (1888), 456 ff.; Montgomery, 62 f.

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at random will illustrate its style: aga: 397 (Gen. 39:2).4309m ISTH ADD my mos woes 7 ADI) DN MIA 1) SmoND pS mm mos kw) mm AID AN? Mim mim owa mms io ryt pipp Nis) MTs 66b: ya TMON MIA? ish PIS Oy ANI NBN 1D Seownw ioe Owm mya. nNi NDI ya Nip NID TaN(Deut. 21:10). 2w Haw ws (n“x) yaa qos 72 pp ’w yrpp> mondnd 9 ye fo n“a wi) yan 13 4) Iw mos yo 9s mind yp 7195 31a: Sy tend 15pm (Gen. 48:20) xin oy 059215 wee DWI NID Soyygyy emda NDS 3 7Ib: mea prpa (Cant. 1:7) 19 man pon noosw> »Syry Onrssy 3 Snomd own my nya yoy (Cant. 2:14) 193195 68a: qwin minh am qt Sy sins anon nonw> (Deut. 29:28) “341 miqnban.

above.

I, 4, n. 3; Mordecai, Ber. §19, p. 2a; Kol Bo, §29; foseph Omez, $647, p. 143.

zayin; Mateh Moshe, $370; ‘Emek Beracha, II, 61, p. 77a; Perles, Graetz Fubel- schrift, 28; Grunwald, M7V, XIX (1906), 114; Testament of Shabbetai Horo- witz, §13.