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The purpose of life is to live it. The allegory of Torah reiterates this over and again. In parashat Mishpatim. The text says: מכשפה לא תחיה “A witch, you shall not allow to live.” The root for the word for witch K.Sh.P (כשף) has a variety of meanings across the Semitic languages. In Akkadian, Ugaritic and Hebrew; the root just means to conjure spells and engage in witchcraft. In Arabic the root varies from “to pull away, remove, take off, unveil, reveal, disclose, uncover, and expose” to “show, demonstrate and shed light,” to “study, investigate, examine and scrutinize.”