Kabbalah

In 1571, a widowed woman, unable to light a fire, screams “to Satan with you” at the flint and tinder and soon finds herself possessed by an evil spirit. Notably, she also does not believe in the exodus. Only after she repents does the kabbalist Hayyim Vital exorcise the spirit through her little toe. Before doing so, Vital interrogates the spirit to learn why it has not yet entered Gehenna (hell) and how it has been wandering the earth from Hormuz to Gaza to Shechem.

On Shavuot night, sometime in the 1530s, R. Joseph Karo and R. Shlomo Alkabetz hold an all-night study session, reciting a selection of biblical passages, followed by Mishnah and kabbalah. At exactly midnight, the voice of a divine being speaks through Karo, thanking the scholars for raising her from the dirt through their sleepless Torah study, and admonishes them not to be materialistic, and instead, to move to Israel.

On the road to Meron, where the Safed kabbalists believe Jesus is buried, R. Hayyim Vital (16^th cent.) encounters a dangerous spirit, who overpowers him in a moment of spiritual weakness. The spirit later tosses him in the air and exhausts him nearly to death, but Vital makes it to his master, the great R. Isaac Luria, the Arizal, who, fearing the spirit will kill Vital and thwart his plans to bring about the messianic age, exorcises it.