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- noun Plural form of
dybbuk .
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Filled with angels and dybbuks, frustrated scholars and sharp-tongued, wise women, sex promised, delayed, anticipated and occasionally even consummated, laced with the sort of wit that armored generations against the cruelties of a savage world, Singer crafts his own universe.
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Filled with angels and dybbuks, frustrated scholars and sharp-tongued, wise women, sex promised, delayed, anticipated and occasionally even consummated, laced with the sort of wit that armored generations against the cruelties of a savage world, Singer crafts his own universe.
Rabbi David Wolpe: Holocausts, Miracles And Mysticism Rabbi David Wolpe 2010
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Filled with angels and dybbuks, frustrated scholars and sharp-tongued, wise women, sex promised, delayed, anticipated and occasionally even consummated, laced with the sort of wit that armored generations against the cruelties of a savage world, Singer crafts his own universe.
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Filled with angels and dybbuks, frustrated scholars and sharp-tongued, wise women, sex promised, delayed, anticipated and occasionally even consummated, laced with the sort of wit that armored generations against the cruelties of a savage world, Singer crafts his own universe.
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Possible solution: Allen's well-known influences became dybbuks and took possession of him, turning him into a puppet gone batty with eclecticism.
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Some people also believe in lesser noncorporeal beings that can temporarily take physical form or occupy human beings or animals: examples include angels, ghosts, poltergeists, succubi, dybbuks, and the demons that Jesus so frequently expelled from people's bodies.
Is God an Accident? 2005
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Some people also believe in lesser noncorporeal beings that can temporarily take physical form or occupy human beings or animals: examples include angels, ghosts, poltergeists, succubi, dybbuks, and the demons that Jesus so frequently expelled from people's bodies.
Is God an Accident? 2005
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At the same time, adds Pedaya, exposing the ceremonies in which dybbuks are exorcised today, arouses criticism among many Jews with their origins in the Muslim world because they do not want to be labeled as backward.
San Francisco Sentinel The San Francisco Sentinel 2010
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Rites designed to exorcise dybbuks have been performed many times in synagogues over the centuries, and are traditionally carried out before large audiences.
San Francisco Sentinel The San Francisco Sentinel 2010
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An-ski did not consider the culture of extracting dybbuks primitive.
San Francisco Sentinel The San Francisco Sentinel 2010
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