Ephemera Collection of 5 Printed Talismans and Prayers for Bad Times:
1. Great Prayer, Tried and Tested for Tough times: “If a big event happens to someone, say this ten times and for the tenth time there will be a rescue from the sky b’ezrat hashem.” Eretz Yisroel, Jerusalem. 1930 approximately.
2. This advice is found in old-fashioned handwriting, scholars and rabbis of Yemenite Jews, when their enemies gave them bad advice, … printed in Jerusalem. Circa 1930.
3. Segula composed by Rabbi Saadia Gaon, Raphael Haim Cohen printing press. About 1960.
4. Stencil page with agenda of prayers and forgiveness on Thursday, 28th of Sivan [1940], apparently following the outbreak of World War II.
5. A prayer for saving the settlement and the land of Israel, "we found in the Margalit Book Kadmon and attributed to Mo Nasser Israel Abba Shalom Shabazi, a prayer to save us from all the trouble and distress …" Printed during the Holocaust in Eretz Israel. Handwritten sketch with other salvation verses, folding marks and minor tears, very good overall condition.
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