A pipe and snuffbox used for spiritual elevation.
In the 19th century, smoking was associated with raising the divine sparks, according to the Lurianic doctrine.
Goldman-Ida, Batsheva. Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
Biale, David, et al. Hasidism: A New History. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018, p. 204.
Grafman, Rafi. “[Snuff Boxes].” Omanut ve-Umanut Be-Eretz Yisrael Ba-Me’ah Ha-19 [Arts and Crafts in 19th-Century Eretz Israel], ed. Yona Fischer, Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1979, pp. 84-5.
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