The Reality of Demons and the Question of Rationality

Do you have a post about ‘the position on the seller’? I think it has something to do with the question

There is indeed some connection. As far as I remember, there is none. There is in the books, of course.

So, yes, Your Honor. Invites a post 😉

On the 17th of Tammuz 5771

Greetings, Rabbi,

If in the time of Chazal and the first, it was difficult to see the pests that are among us in great numbers, like a plague to the Ogiya, and cause diseases and weakness, may the Lord bless them, today they can be seen with a microscope (they are called microbes), or with an electronic microscope (they are called viruses).

And as the sages described, these pests, which are not visible to the naked eye, are found in places of filth and decay, and one of the effective tips for protecting against them is to be careful to wash your hands frequently, especially after sleeping, touching dirty places and surfaces, and handling food.

And as they say in the Kaddish: ’And ‘Yishva varrapua varrivach varmachala’, that keeping the distance between people saves from pests.

With greetings, Donald-Hai Dak

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… Filthy and before eating…

At the time I heard from Prof. Ezra Fleischer, late Rabbi, that Prof. Shaul Lieberman, late Rabbi, did not seem to agree with the scholars who had a conflict between Babylon and Israel regarding the belief in the existence of vermin, because their affairs are less mentioned in the sources of the Land of Israel.

Rabbi Lieberman's argument was: And in the Land of Israel were the Jews not civilized? Did they not accept the conclusions of the science of their time in Israel? After all, even today's science will be considered superstition in hundreds of years 🙂

Best wishes, Shai Tsai Rowling (in a letter-making way)

I asked a Haredi resident who wasn't wearing a mask to prove to me that he wasn't a demon.

The claim that natures have changed or that reality has apparently changed since the time of the Talmud is a somewhat weak claim. Isn't there a more plausible explanation?

I said I'm not inclined to accept that. I suppose it's part of the prevailing perceptions at the time that they saw demons where we see natural phenomena. See my own Mythological Demon Cluster and column 22.

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It is not possible for a person to believe in demons unless a demon enters him and distorts his mind.

And I heard behind the curtain that even the demons who are crazy are not crazy except because of the Donculus within them, because a horror within a horror dwells and horrors with them, and it is the form of a demon that dwells as a demon within itself, and it is the primeval serpent whose mouth is in its tail, and it is a Leviathan, a serpent by its smell, wanting to say that the righteous who eat from Leviathan have the power to identify the serpent with the help of a smell that they smell like the King Messiah, who anoints and gives, meaning that all the people will know me, and madness will be deprived of creation, and in any case there is no serpent, meaning a demon within itself, as the Mishnah says, which is the lack of knowledge and light.