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Negative commandment · Lo Ta’aseh #34 of 613

Not to practice sorcery

שלא לכשף

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The verse · Devarim 18:10

לֹא־יִמָּצֵא בְךָ מַעֲבִיר בְּנוֹ־וּבִתּוֹ בָּאֵשׁ קֹסֵם קְסָמִים מְעוֹנֵן וּמְנַחֵשׁ וּמְכַשֵּׁף

“There must not be found among you anyone that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, a soothsayer, or an enchanter, or a witch,”

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The Rambam’s words

Not to practice sorcery, as [Deuteronomy 18:10] states: "There shall not be found among you... a sorcerer."

שלא לכשף, שנאמר "לא יימצא בך . . . ומכשף" (דברים יח,י).

Who & when

“And this prohibition is practiced in every place and at all times by males and females.”

Where in the Mishneh Torah

Hilchot Foreign Worship and Customs of the Nations הלכות עבודה זרה וחוקות הגויים

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