Sicha Witchcraft 2: Witches in Talmud/ Carb Magic

...The Sages taught in a baraita: The verse: “You shall not allow a witch to live” (Exodus 22:17), does not refer only to a female who practices sorcery; both a man and a woman are included. If so, why does verse state “a witch”? This is because most women are familiar with witchcraft...

(7) [[Rabban Gamaliel the son of Rabbi Judah Hanasi]used to say: The more flesh, the more worms; The more property, the more anxiety; The more women, the more witchcraft...

The Master said : One may not pass by food [meaning bread]; rather, one must treat the food with respect and pick it up. Rabbi Yoḥanan said in the name of Rabbi Shimon bar Yoḥai: They taught this ruling only in the early generations, when Jewish women were not accustomed to using witchcraft. However, in the later generations, when Jewish women are accustomed to using witchcraft, one may pass by food, as a spell might have been cast on the bread, and one must not put himself in unnecessary danger. A Sage taught: If the loaves are whole, one may pass them by, as they might have been placed there for the purposes of witchcraft; however, if they are in pieces, one may not pass them by, because bread in pieces is not used for witchcraft...

...Ameimar said: The chief of witches said to me: One who encounters witches should say this incantation: Hot feces in torn date baskets in your mouth, witches; may your hairs fall out because you use them for witchcraft; your crumbs, which you use for witchcraft, should scatter in the wind; your spices, which you use for your witchcraft, should scatter; the wind should carry away the fresh saffron that you witches hold to perform your witchcraft. As long as I was shown favor from Heaven and you showed me favor, I did not come here. Now that I have come here, your favor toward me has cooled and you should find favor.

(16)“Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah; he took Rebecca, she became his wife, and he loved her, and Isaac was comforted after his mother” (Genesis 24:67). ...When [Isaac] saw that [Rebbecca] was acting just like his mother [Sarah], separating cḥalla in purity, and shaping loaves from her dough in purity, immediately, he “brought her into the tent.”...

(20) At once Saul flung himself prone on the ground, terrified by Samuel’s words. Besides, there was no strength in him, for he had not eaten anything all day and all night. (21) The woman went up to Saul and, seeing how greatly disturbed he was, she said to him, “Your handmaid listened to you; I took my life in my hands and heeded the request you made of me. (22) So now you listen to me: Let me set before you a bit of food. Eat, and then you will have the strength to go on your way.” (23) He refused, saying, “I will not eat.” But when his courtiers as well as the woman urged him, he listened to them; he got up from the ground and sat on the bed. (24) The woman had a stall-fed calf in the house; she hastily slaughtered it, and took flour and kneaded it, and baked some unleavened cakes. (25) She set this before Saul and his courtiers, and they ate. Then they rose and left the same night.

(18) The children gather sticks, the fathers build the fire, and the mothers knead dough, to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven, and they pour libations to other gods, to vex Me.

(17) And you, O mortal, set your face against the women of your people, who prophesy out of their own imagination. Prophesy against them (18) and say: Thus said the Sovereign Divine: Woe to those who sew pads on all arm-joints and make bonnets for the head of every person, in order to entrap! Can you hunt down lives among My people, while you preserve your own lives? (19) You have profaned Me among My people in return for handfuls of barley and morsels of bread; you have announced the death of persons who will not die and the survival of persons who will not live—lying to My people, who listen to your lies.

"By handfuls of barley and scraps of bread": This refers to the payment they received for their deeds—those who consulted them would give them a handful of barley or a piece of bread. Some interpret that they would place the barley and bread inside the cushion, and with these items, they would perform their actions.

(26) You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall not practice divination or soothsaying.

(5) You shall take choice flour and bake of it twelve loaves, two-tenths of a measure for each loaf. (6) Place them on the pure table before the Divine in two rows, six to a row. (7) With each row you shall place pure frankincense, and it will be as a bread offering by fire to the Divine

(18) "than one who pranks himself" is as we said, that he puts on airs, curls his hair, and acts haughtily, "but lacks bread." This means a lack of faith, as it is written, "to offer the bread of his Elohim" (Vayikra 21:17), and "the bread of their Elohim they do offer" (Ibid. 6). Bread is the Shechinah in both verses. Faith is the Shechinah, so lacking bread means lacking faith.

(1)8. Through proper prayer, the light of ancestors' merit shines, this is the essence of “the merit of the ancestors is ChaLaH (activated).” This happens through proper prayer, because ancestral merit is ChaLaH/activated as a result of “Moshe vayeChaL (implored)…” (Exodus 32:11)—through the aspect of prayer. And “wherever the ancestors are present, the Shechinah/Feminine Divine Presence is present.” For She is the aspect of challah, she is gam zot (this too--the Zohar calls the Goddess "gam zot" see Zohar:Bechokotai 15:56); GaM is the aspect of ChaLlaH, whose measure is M-G (43) "eggs." (Considered the minimum measurement of flour which requires burning a piece of the dough)

(18) Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: When you enter the land to which I am taking you (19) and you eat of the bread of the land, you shall set some aside as a gift to Yah: (20) as the first yield of your baking. you shall set aside a loaf as a gift; you shall set it aside as a gift like the gift from the threshing floor. (21) You shall make a gift to Yah from the first yield of your baking, throughout the ages.

... The First Man was the pure ḥallah of the world, as is written Gen. 2:7., the Eternal, God, created man, dust from the earth. This comes as Rebbi Yose ben Qasarta said, when the woman agitates her dough in water she lifts her ḥallah. Eve caused him death, therefore they handed the commandment of ḥallah to the woman...