Postscriptum : dieta e preghiera per favorire il ḥibbur

In this article two apocryphal appendices of the anonymous Iggeret ha-Qodeš (kabbalistic treatise on the sexual union attributed to Nahmanides (RaMBaN) are edited and analyzed. The first appendix is a dietary prescription which is meant to improve the quality of blood and semen in order to enhance conception. The second one contains a magical prayer to be pronounced by the kabbalist on the night established to perform the hibbur (sexual union), in order to attract special moral and spiritual virtues on his future offspring. Both texts are found in the oldest manuscripts of Iggeret ha-Qodeš and the aim of the essay is to describe this branch of the tradition. The correspondences between the appendices and the ritual and theurgical instructions – in the fourth and fifth chapters of Iggeret ha-Qodeš – are also taken into account.