© koninklijke brill nv, leiden,  | doi: ./- Aries – Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism  () – ARIES brill.com/arie Three Charms for Killing Adolf Hitler Practical Kabbalah in ww2* Yuval Harari Ben Gurion University of the Negev yharari@bgu.ac.il Abstract This article deals with mystical-magical activities carried out in Jerusalem by kabbalists and rabbis during the years of the Third Reich as part of their struggle against the Nazi threat. It focuses on a page written for Eliyahu Mizrahi Dehuki, a relatively unknown Jerusalem expert in practical Kabbalah, containing three magic recipes for killing Adolf Hitler. The article opens with a discussion of the tradition of practical Kabbalah and the role of aggressive magic within it. It then proceeds to describe the two-pronged (defensive and aggressive) struggle that Jerusalem kabbalists and rabbis conducted against the Nazi foe during ww2. The discussion then turns to Eliyahu Mizrahi and to the page that was sent to him. The concluding section meticulously examines these magic recipes and the ritual acts they offer in the context of other insider sources, attesting to the nature and the symbolic language of Jewish aggressive magic. Keywords Jewish magic – practical Kabbalah – harmful magic – magic recipes – ritual violence – ww2 – Eliyahu Mizrahi Dehuki – Jerusalem kabbalists * This is an abridged and revised version of my Hebrew article “Shalosh segulot laharog et Adolf Hitler: perek be-toldot ha-kabbalah ha-maʿasit ba-meʾah ha-ʿesrim,” Zion 81 (2016): 177–213. I am grateful for the publisher’s permission to publish it in English. Thanks to Gideon Bohak, Jonathan Meir and Kimi Kaplan for their helpful comments. The article was translated by Batya Stein.