Magic

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I read the 6th and 7th book of Moses, and there was some magic. You say that magic spells are forbidden in Judaism. If so, then why did Moses write those books?

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  1. The Just Ask! - AskTheRabbi.org Team

    I do not know to what exactly you are referring. The Torah prohibits magic and that is what is codefied in Jewish Law.

    What is true is that what we refer to as magic today is really nothing more than slight-of-hand, and it is not the magic that the Torah mentions.

    Best wishes from the AskTheRabbi.org Team

  2. Prittom datta
    July 25, 2019 at 1:29 am

    I had found in wikipidia that the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses is an 18th- or 19th-century magical text allegedly written by Moses, and passed down as hidden (or lost) books of the Jewish Tanakh.I found it from a link https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_and_Seventh_Books_of_Moses&ved=0ahUKEwj_n5K_9M7jAhXh8HMBHW5SAlwQFghVMAQ&usg=AOvVaw0svah_Vcu3LhB4FmHgztPm&cshid=1564018144591

  3. The Just Ask! - AskTheRabbi.org Team
    July 25, 2019 at 2:50 pm

    I have never heard of such a thing and it has no origins in authentic Judaism.

    Best wishes from the AskTheRabbi.org Team