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I thought a lot about shefa abundance, overflow and wondered if maybe the Kabbalists were right after all.
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I thought a lot about shefa abundance, overflow and wondered if maybe the Kabbalists were right after all.
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Rebecca Stern · December 10th, 2006 at 2:38 pm one thing to add - while we discussing the topic of niddah: I just read an article on the “shefa list” which noted that two weeks of niddah results in many women ovulating prior to going to the mikveh…. ie ovulating when they are not allowed to have sex.
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This suspicion was nurtured by the fact that Maimonides explicitly accepted the Neo-Platonic emanationist view of the eternal effluence (shefa) from the source above as the explanation of the continuous dynamism in the world.
Elijah Delmedigo Ross, Jacob 2005
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But Khoda shefa midêhed -- Heaven gives relief -- as the Mussulmans say when you tread upon their toes.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Edgar Allan Poe 1829
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"Khoda shefa midêhed -- God gives relief!" cried the pacha, as the divan closed: and, certainly, during its continuance many had been relieved of their worldly goods, and one or two from all future worldly thoughts or wanderings.
The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820
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"Khoda shefa midêhed -- God gives relief," replied the pacha, as he resumed his seat: "let him approach."
The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820
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"Khoda shefa midêhed -- God gives relief," said the old man.
The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820
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"Keoda shefa midehed -- God gives relief!" cried the pacha, as the divan closed: and, certainly, during its continuance many had been relieved of their worldly goods, and one or two from all future worldly thoughts or wanderings.
The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820
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"Khoda shefa midehed -- God gives relief," said the old man.
The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820
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