Yuval Harari

Biographic Data

ID9296773
NAMEYuval Harari
GIVEN NAMESYuval
FAMILY NAMEHarari
SIGNATUREHARARI Y
AFFILIATIONS1 Ben Gurion University of the Negev
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR15
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Commentary on a Few Names

    Eliezer Baumgarten, Yuval Harari et al.ARTICLEJewish Studies Quarterly2024

    Rabbi Moses Zacuto was the most prominent rabbi and kabbalist in Italy in the second half of the 17th century. His outstanding lexical enterprise in the field of Kabbalah of the holy names (kabbalat hashemot) was also a substantial contribution to the field of practical Kabbalah (kabbalah maʽasit). The ms Moscow, Russian State Library, Guenzburg 1448 contains the initial phase of this endeavor – a short work titled A Commentary on a Few Names, wh…

  • Love, Sex and Marriage in the Jewish Magic of Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic Period

    Yuval Noah Harari, Yuval HarariARTICLEJewish Studies Quarterly2022

    This article attempts to characterize Jewish magic activity pursued for the sake of »love« during Late Antiquity and the early Islamic period. It relies largely on the magic sources themselves – incantation bowls, amulets and magic recipes, dating from the 5th to the 13th centuries. My focus is on three main aspects that Jewish love magic offered assistance with: gaining love; creating, preserving and restoring marriage; and achieving sexual inte…

  • Practical Kabbalah

    J H Chajes, Julie Chajes et al.ARTICLEAries2019

  • “Practical Kabbalah” and the Jewish Tradition of Magic

    Yuval Noah Harari, Yuval HarariARTICLEAries2019

    This article deals with the Jewish tradition of magic and its relationship with Kabbalah.1 It begins by clarifying internal and external views of magic in Judaism, the place of “Kabbalah” and “kabbalists” in the traditional Jewish discourse of ritual power, and the role of “practical Kabbalah” in Israel’s market of New Age spiritual therapies. The focus is on the mutual relationships between the conceptual and performative foundations of Jewish m…

  • Three Charms for Killing Adolf Hitler

    Yuval Noah Harari, Yuval HarariARTICLEAries2017

    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 rol…

  • Havdala de‐Rabbi Akiba

    Open AccessYuval Noah Harari, Yuval HarariCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    The Havdala according to Rabbi Aqiva ( Havdala de‐Rabbi Aqiva ) is a short treatise that sketches a magical version of the Jewish ceremony of Havdala (separation between the holy and the profane) that is performed every Saturday evening, marking the end of Shabbat.

  • S efer ha‐ R azim (the B ook of M ysteries) ( J ewish magical text)

    Open AccessYuval Noah Harari, Yuval HarariCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Sefer ha‐Razim (the Book of Mysteries) is the earliest Jewish magical treatise known to us. It was composed in fine Hebrew, probably in Egypt or Palestine, during the second third of the first millennium.

  • Amulets, Jewish

    Open AccessYuval Noah Harari, Yuval HarariCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    In the broad sense of the term, an amulet is an artifact empowered through rituals and spells that is used for the benefit of its owner. In this sense magical gems and jewelry, and even incantation bowls, are amulets.

  • Harba de‐Moshe (Sword of Moses)

    Open AccessYuval Noah Harari, Yuval HarariCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Harba de‐Moshe (the Sword of Moses )is a wide‐ranging Jewish treatise of magic that was probably compiled in Palestine during the third quarter of the first millennium.

  • Magic, Jewish

    Open AccessYuval Noah Harari, Yuval HarariCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Magic was manifestly forbidden in the Bible as well as in the later, rabbinical law.

  • Continuity and innovation in the magical tradition

    Gideon Bohak, Yuval Harari et al.BOOKContinuity and innovation in the…2011

    This volume brings together thirteen studies by as many experts in the study of one or more ancient or medieval magical traditions, from ancient Mesopotamia and Pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt to the Greek world, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It lays special emphasis on the recurrence of similar phenomena in magical texts as far apart as the Akkadian cuneiform tablets and an Arabic manuscript bought in Egypt in the late-twentieth century. Such…

  • Continuity and Innovation in the Magical Tradition

    Gideon Bohak, Shaul Shaked et al.BOOKContinuity and innovation in the…2011

  • Jewish Folklore—Ethnic Identity, Collection and Research

    Tamar Alexander, Yuval Noah Harari et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Jewish Studies2009

  • Moses, the Sword, and The Sword of Moses

    Yuval Noah Harari, Yuval HarariARTICLEJewish Studies Quarterly2005

    »Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495

  • The military role of the Frankish Turcopoles

    Yuval Noah Harari, Yuval HarariARTICLEMediterranean Historical Review1997References: 2

    (1997). The military role of the Frankish Turcopoles: A reassessment. Mediterranean Historical Review: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 75-116