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Bidding Information
Lot #    25435
Auction End Date    12/8/2009 12:38:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Shemira le-Yeled
Title (Hebrew)    שמירה לילד וליולדת
Author    [Kabbalah - Unrecorded]
City    Jerusalem
Publisher    Zuckerman
Publication Date    [1899]
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 297:202 mm., light age staining, creased on folds, gold ink on paper.
          
Paragraph 1    CD-EPI 0153176 a similar broadside calls for the palm contents to be by the HIDA, this paper does not state the origin, this Shemirah includes a prayer to Elijah attributed to the Besht.
          
Detailed
Description		    Kabbalistic Shemira poster normally placed by the crib of newborns, or according to other customs above the bed of the woman and above the doorposts of the room. The Shemira poster is also known by other names, such as kindbet, tsetl, and Shmir-Tsetl. In all cases its purpose is to protect the baby from Lilith or other harmful spirits. The name comes from Psalm 121, begins, “A Song of Maalot. I will lift up my eyes to the mountains. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who watches you will not slumber. Behold, he who watches Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.”
          
Paragraph 2    בסימן טוב ובמזל טוב...

במרכז העמוד: כף-יד, ולמטה: מרובע שבתוכו בעין גלגל, ובהם: שמות וצירופי-אותיות. בצדדים: אדם וחוה...

          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
Subject
  
Kabbalah:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica