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Kabbalah su Proverbi 1:10

בְּנִ֡י אִם־יְפַתּ֥וּךָ חַ֝טָּאִ֗ים אַל־תֹּבֵֽא׃

Figlio mio, se i peccatori ti attirano, non acconsentire.

Shaarei Orah

And now my child, listen to my voice and may your ears be attentive to my advice (cf. Psalms 130:2). My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield (Prov. 1:10). If they say: Come with us and we will give in your hand names and invocations [of the Tetragrammaton] so you can make use of them, my child, do not go in the way with them. Prevent your feet from going in there ways, because all those names and uses are a net and a trap to capture souls and to go to perdition. And if truly the early sages had the Received Sacred Names from the Prophets, such as the 72, or 42, or 12, and the other many Sacred Names, and they were able to renew with them the signs and portents in the world, they wouldn't have used them for their personal needs, only in the times of oppression according to the moment, or for the Sanctification of the Name. For example, rabbi Meir that saved his sister-in-law from being in the whorehouse, and said to the Kuti that was the guard of the door: "every time that you see yourself in trouble say: 'God of Meir, answer me!' an you will be saved." (Avodah Zarah 18b). And even though he said so to the Kuti, at the time that Rabbi Meir himsekf was in danger he did not make use of the Name, rather, he fled, as it is told in the first chapter of Avodah Zarah. Or in the case of Choni Hameag'el (Taanit 23a); or in the case of Rava with King Shabur (Taanit 24b) as in the chapter Seder Taaniot; or as in the case of David when he dug the drainpipes and the depths arose to flood the world (Sukkah 53b) as it is told in the chapter HaChalil and in Sanhedrin.
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