Amulet for Protection and Healing by the Kabbalist Rabbi Yehudah Patiyah. Baghdad, First Half of the 20th Century

Amulet for Protection and Healing by the Kabbalist Rabbi Yehudah Patiyah. Baghdad, First Half of the 20th Century

Amulet for protection from demons and pests, healing of body and soul, against the evil eye and bad dreams, and more, in the great kabbalist of Baghdad, Rabbi Yehudah Patiyah's handwriting. Baghdad, before 1935.

Specifications: [1] amulet, ink on parchment. 4.5x39.5 cm. Sephardic handwriting, and vowelized scribal script. This type of amulet is generally rolled up in a gold or leather case. A handwriting identity expert's certification is attached.

Content: " ... May it be Your will ... to protect and save your servant ... wearing this amulet, from demons and pests ... and from epilepsy and all other sicknesses and diseases, and from anxiety and shock and damage and injury and the evil eye ... and to cure him with a complete cure, body and soul ... and grant him a good life, and that he not be frightened by bad dreams ..."

The great kabbalist Rabbi Yehudah Moshe Patiyah (1859-1942) was among the great kabbalists of Baghdad, a disciple of Rabbi Yosef Chaim of Baghdad, ordained at 17 by Rabbi Abdallah Someach, and started studying kabbalah with Rabbi Yosef Chaim at a very young age. He would conduct tikkunei nefesh for the departed, and hashbaut shedim to extricate demons from people's bodies. He was also an expert in dream interpretation, and people in need flocked to him for his salvations and blessings. He immigrated to the Land of Israel in 1934, and settled in Jerusalem until his final day.

Condition: Moderate-fine condition. Isolated holes on the top and bottom edges used to affix the amulet, partially faded or smudged ink in a small number of letters.