Most amulets are made for the use of an individual and to be carried on the person. However, the amulet we will discuss in this post is designed to provide the home and it's inhabitants with protection, blessing, health and success.
The amulet is printed on page 363 in Sefer Nehash HaNehoshet, a Hebrew work on practical Kabbalah and miscellaneous topics by the Yemenite/Israeli Rabbi Shalom Keter.
The following description is given:
A Jerusalemite amulet: For protection against disease, fires, pandemics, evil eye, harsh decrees, witchcraft. For all matters of health of the youth; for sickness and aches, weakness of the body and it's limbs. This is a segula ("charm") for success and livelihood, for having children. For grace, kindness and mercy. Blessings and heavenly assistance, for the body's physical and spiritual health. Taken from the manuscript of Rabbi Y. Chama from the times of the Geonim.
The list of benefits of this manuscript is comprehensive, it's clearly a universal amulet for nearly everything. Rabbi Keter records this source for this as "the manuscript of Rabbi Y. Chama from the times of the Geonim." It is unclear to me who this Rabbi is. The Geonim was a time period consisting of the 6th to 11th centuries. The attribution suggests that there is a very old tradition for this amulet.
Analysis of the amulet
This complex amulet consists of six separate features.
A full analysis and translation will be forthcoming and added to this post...
