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THE ATLAS OF THE POLISHED MIRROR

⚠ The fence they traded across

⚠ the contact
nature
Every other cousin on this bench converged from far away, with no traffic in either direction. Not this one. Baḥya writes Sufi ethics into Jewish devotion around 1080 and it becomes a classic. Abraham Maimonides, head of Egyptian Jewry, adopts Sufi discipline in the open in the 1220s and argues in writing that the Sufis kept a prophetic practice Israel let lapse — and his congregation petitions the Muslim authorities to stop him. His son writes a Sufi manual in Hebrew letters. Abulafia's breath-and-Name technique appears in dhikr's century and dhikr's East. Safed, three centuries on, works in Ottoman Galilee with the orders next door.

The reason this pack's honesty note differs from every other one in the annex. Elsewhere the app writes "a resonance, not an identity — this corpus grew from other soil." Here some of the soil was shared, deliberately, with argument, in public, by people who signed their names.
rhymes with
sephirahyesod
whyThe channel — and in this wing it is not a metaphor.
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contact · bahya · abraham maimonides · abulafia · safed · fenton
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