Q&A: And If Angels… Let’s Go Back to Talking About Eve and Adam
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And If Angels… Let’s Go Back to Talking About Eve and Adam
Question
What are angels in your view? In one of your answers you wrote that nowadays they can be related to as a kind of system of the laws of nature. Angels have a major presence in prayer. Would you give them up in a lean theology?
Answer
I have no idea. I wrote that in the view of the Sages, demons are entities that bring about natural phenomena, like the demon of the privy that causes houses to crumble down (the second law of thermodynamics). More generally, there is a process in which what, in ancient thought, were entities become phenomena for us. I discussed this in Column 68. It is possible that this is true of angels as well, but I do not know.