LEVEL 01
רמת המתחיל
Base — Beginner & Intermediate
Hebrew text of the nineteen seifim with fluent English translation: astrologers and lots, תמים תהיה, the days and the course of the moon, the list of ניחוש and the permission of the סימן, the חובר חבר, the incantation over a bite and over a pursuing snake, the verse whispered over a wound, the stricken child, the healthy man, the measured belt, amulets, the דורש אל המתים, the adjuration of the sick man, the אוחז את העינים and the ספר יצירה, the מעשה שדים, the circumcision-night table, the incense and the אמגושי — with the fifty-three entries of the Shakh, the Taz, the Ba’er Hetev and the Pit’hei Teshuva, the Tur and the Rambam.
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LEVEL 02
רמת הלמדן
Lamdan — Talmid Hakham
In-depth pilpul: the Shakh’s line between speech and act; the four positions on the sick man and the Mishkenot Yaakov’s reading; the stated reason, the Taz and the question of the inner court; the sign for the future and the Rambam’s apparent contradiction; the tongue of the whispered verse and the refutation of the Bach; the order of spitting and reading; healing by words of Torah and the Rashba’s responsum on amulets; the אוחז את העינים between מעונן and מכשף, with the Beit Yosef’s solution and the Taz’s; Sefer Yetzira; the מקטר לשד between עבודת כוכבים and בעל אוב; and study with the אמגושי.
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LEVEL 03
חזרה וסיכום
Synthesis — Revision
A master table of the nineteen seifim clause by clause, the axiom of the two registers, the three reflex questions, the question of the sick man in five views, augury against sign, the stated reason, the two breaches of danger, verses between healing and protecting, the dead, illusion and Sefer Yetzira, the table and the incense, the vocabulary, the golden rules, the mnemonic and the classic pitfalls.
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LEVEL 04
הלכה למעשה
Halakha lema’asse — Psak
Practical halakha according to the ש״ך, the ט״ז, the באר היטב and the פתחי תשובה, then contemporary cases. Note: the נקודות הכסף do not comment on this siman, and the Admor HaZaken did not write a Shulchan Arukh on Yoreh De’ah — a level of psak, not “Daat HaRav”.
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