1 Samuel 16:14-16 ? My daughter is a 911 dispatcher and she receives many calls on unusual spiritual activity. Not long ago a call in the next city took place where the family heard voices coming from the wall. The police and the fire department were called and the officers were actually corresponding with the voice in the wall. Many officers spoke with the voice. The wall was knocked down only to find that there was nothing inside. All of the officers who were involved had to go for counseling. Another call came in where a woman called and said two men dressed in black were there to get her. The call was transferred to the sergeant and shortly afterwards the Sergeant heard a thump. The woman passed away but prior to that she told the officer what she was experiencing. If you look online and research supernatural experiences with police departments you will find that they are quite frequent. My daughter has been a dispatcher for 13 years and has received many calls pertaining to evil spirits. We personally experienced actual supernatural beings that appeared to us.
Isn’t magic mentioned in the Old Testament..like the magicians who challenged Moses and the fact God forbids sorcery and talking to the dead such as Saul seeing the witch who raised the shade of Saul?
Whose to say what we today call germs aren't demons? This passage would seem to support it: “Afflictions of the children of Adam [2 Samuel 7:14]. These lure human beings at doorways, wells, and toilets. Therefore, if a person places the Holy Name at his doorway-if שַׁדַּי is inscribed in its supernal crowns-they all flee far away from him, corresponding to what is written: No affliction will draw near your tent [Psalms 91:10]. What is affliction? Afflictions of the children of Adam” (Zohar 3:76b).
The Bavli seems to acknowledge that demons are a figment of the imagination: “To one an evil spirit may show itself and harm him; to two it may show itself, but without harming them; to three it will not even show itself” (BT Berakhot 43b).
We are the creators of our demons and angels. Our demons are born out of our bad thoughts and our negative feelings , they enter our psychic house and if fed well of our destructive emotions can grow into maturity. They can converse with us on daily basis trying to gain more of their negative energetic bread.The same is with angels . Where do the Angels of Peace come from on the Shabbat night ? They come from our good thoughts and positive feelings that we have created by chanting the songs and prayers of peace.
The ramak is talking about statement in the zohar about washing the right hand before the left (i.e. using the left to wash the right). He refers to this a middas chassidus, not the entire practice of washing hands altogether.
Yes once you experience it then you know it is real. The only problem is, there is so much lacking in the Israelite world for how to take care of the problems. This causes those who are aware of evil to turn to other religious systems which have effective means of getting rid of the ghosts.
Don’t every time we sin we create a klippa or negative Malachim? When we say Kriat shema partly is because our body stays without a soul because it goes to shamain to give account of the day etc,
According to the RAMBAM in strict Monotheism there can be no duality or dualism such as for example as there is in Zoroastrianism between Angra Mainyu, the Zoroastrian god of evil, darkness, and ignorance and Ahura Mazda which Zoroaster referred to as Ahura, The Lord Creator, and Mazda, the Supremely Wise. Zoroastrianism was practised in Babylonia. Judaism was increasingly influenced by Zoroastrianism, after the fall of the first temple Beit HaMikdash on Tisha B'Av, the destruction of the Temple and the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile of the leading citizens to Babylon in 586 B.C.E It was a simple theology that seemed to explain why there was evil in the world or why would the Almighty permit evil in the world an attempt to formulate Theodicy, the question of why a good God permits the manifestation of evil. There was a battle between the forces of good and evil, with the ultimate victory of good over evil. Those who sided with the forces of good, were supporting the Divine cause. The evil forces were regarded as anger, envy, lies and environmental pollution, etc. In effect the Zoroastrian followers had developed a form of angelology and demonology. After during the Second Temple Period, when Jews were living in the Achaemenid Empire, Judaism was heavily influenced by Zoroastrianism, the religion of the Achaemenids. The idea of Satan as an opponent of God and a purely evil figure seems to have taken root in Jewish pseudepigrapha during the Second Temple Period, particularly in the apocrypha. The Book of Enoch, which the Dead Sea Scrolls have revealed to have been nearly as popular as the Torah, describes a group of 200 angels known as the "Watchers", who are assigned to supervise the earth, but instead abandon their duties and have sexual intercourse with human women. The leader of the Watchers is Semjâzâ and another member of the group, known as Azazel, spreads sin and corruption among humankind. These are all foreign influences that the RAMBAM recognised as such and should be rejected.
Interesting perspective a lot of this makes sense to me. It should be noted though that Satan is explicitly mentioned in Job which could have been written around the time you mentioned.
@@leonlevy468 Reading the book of Job and not reading it in Hebrew one loose a lot of the meaning, I would like to say one loose the plot. It is a Poetic Book consisting of a prose prologue and epilogue narrative framing poetic dialogues and monologues. "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job" Uz is a fictional place to serve the story of Job, rather than a physical land. The word Uz in Hebrew means "counsel" or "advice", which here suggests that this story takes place in the "Land of Counsel". The book of Job addresses theodicy, why God permits evil in the world, through the experiences of the eponymous protagonist. HaSatan is translated as Satan by Christian translators. HaSatan in Hebrew means the Adversary. Anyone can be the Adversary or opposer, someone who offers opposition You, I anyone It could be a fictional character to play the role of the aopposer or literary the devils advocate. Rabbinic Judaism rejected the Enochian books (written during the Second Temple period under Persian influence), which depicted the devil as an independent force of evil besides God. After the apocalyptic period, references to Satan in the Tanakh are thought to be allegorical. Remember among some Orthodox (now dont think Orthodox is the oldest movement in Judaism the movement is a modern phenomenon. It arose as a result of the breakdown of the autonomous Jewish community since the 18th century, and was much shaped by a conscious struggle against the pressures of secularization and rival alternatives) It is not the largest main stream movement but among them they have the notion of HaStan as a angle but unlike the Christian Satan he is Not a fallen angel He cannot rebel against god nor can he do anything from his own will he simply play the adversary on the part of god to test people or to carry out punishment. Not all traditions in Judaism believe this. The book of Job is not a real story that is based on a historical event but a debate. The language of Job stands out for its conservative spelling and for its exceptionally large number of words and forms not found elsewhere in the Bible. A close analysis suggests that the foreign words and foreign-looking forms are literary affectations designed to lend authenticity to the book's distant setting and give it a foreign flavor.
@@justaguy1212 Which tradition there is not one tradition and how is it expressed in the or each tradition can you mention examples or are you just generalizing and guessing No its not the end of the story by far you are not familiar with the wide range of traditions when it comes to the many many traditions within Judaism and Christian traditions and Esoteric traditions? It would be pretty arrogant to assume one is familiar with all of the wide range of interpretations out there. As the good Rabbi mentioned You have books written on anything from how to make money with the Kabbalah to The Practical Kabbalah tradition
May I ask the rabbai : Is not “el schadai”, “schadai” on the mesusa, “schin” on tefilin schel rosch and symbolising “schin-daled-jud” with the reziot - each marking protection against “scheidim”, whatever they might be ?
"Jeshurun thus became fat and rebelled. You grew fat, thick and gross. [The nation] abandoned the God who made it and spurned the Mighty One who was its support." (Deut. 32:15) I think this is the key to understanding the Sheidim. Jeshrun abandoned and spurned God, thus allowing the new arrivals. In Psalm 106:38, notice how the land was "chaneph" or polluted after wrong sacrifice. The Sheidim are a spiritual pollution who come in judgment when God is rejected or his law spurned. It is a mystery, but I think it has something to due with Esau, who spurned and rejected all holiness.
What else did you expect? He's a Jew. You won't get a straight answer. Straight answers tie you up, give you a side. The Jewish people can't work their secrets that way.
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There is no clear answer because there are certain things about life that are not clear. I do lean toward ghosts and demons aliens bizarre creatures reincarnation. With cameras etc many incidents have been recorded.
I put absolutely no stock into demons or evil spirits etc. My reason being is the Torah. It states I must choose to do good or evil, to follow Torah or not...how can you choose when demons control you or possess you? My feeling is that this clearly demonstrates that demons probably do not exist. I think that the people that believe....for instance that they are possessed believe the lie that they are...so much so, they act it out....very good actors can do wonders. If Demons theoretically have any power over any human being on this earth...most especially the Jewish people then isn't the Torah proved to be irrelevant? There would be no such thing as Free will. Thanks Rav Bar Hayim!
There is nothing to explain, since there are no consistently observable phenomena to investigate. Hell, even if there was evidence, there isn't really anything that can be used to experiment on such phenomena. Evidence assembled for the existence of ghosts is largely ad hoc, anecdotal and difficult (or impossible) to duplicate or investigate further. Explanations of ghosts supposedly dodging physical laws (like being semi-transparent or able to pass through walls) date back to Cambridge Platonist Henry Moore in the 17th century who suggested that souls (and therefore ghosts) are essentially four-dimensional beings, an idea that Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner promoted in the 19th century. Using Edwin Abbott Abbott's Flatland as his foundation, Carl Sagan in the print version of Cosmos stated: “”"If a fourth-dimension creature existed it could, in our three-dimensional universe, appear and dematerialize at will, change shape remarkably, pluck us out of locked rooms, and make us appear from nowhere." -Carl Sagan. Cosmos pg 219 The problem is that most ghost lovers go the easier 'doesn't follow physical laws' route and call it a day. In reality they (though they don't realize it) mean 'doesn't follow three dimensional physical laws'. Apophenia (seeing meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data) in conjunction with strong emotions can explain many ghost sightings. This combination was used by Carl Sagan to explain the Martian canals seen by Percival Lowell: “”"There is no doubt that the Mars canals of Percival Lowell were of intelligent origin. The only question is which side of the telescope the intelligence was on. Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves." -Carl Sagan. Cosmos
@In some versions of the myth, hope had to work its way back into the box so that it could be found by Pandora. After all the evils were released, hope was left behind, but it had to voluntarily return to the box to offer solace to humanity. This aspect of the story emphasizes the idea that hope is not easily extinguished and can be rediscovered even in the most challenging circumstances. Thank you for pointing out the missing information, and I apologize for any confusion caused.🎉
Iam shocked, shocked I tell you that contemporary Rabbis and Sages can't agree on the existence of demons. I can understand that common less educated Jews believe in demons and superstitions. I can also understand why ancient sages were superstitious. There were and still are Jewish Rationalist and Jewish Mystics. Both believe in superstitions, but for different reasons. What does the Torah say about demons?
There aren't any bushes in this video. Also the Rav prefers to give references and explanations instead of merely telling people what to believe. Everyone must be convinced and not believe blindly.
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there are evil angels, demons . demons are nephalim spirits, that which are the dead spirits of fallen angels cross breeding with women producing hybrids in the world.
If one says that Yehoshua (Joshua) saw the Angel of death and then threw himself on the ground. We can surely assume that Moshe Rabenu's talmid was well aware of most(if not all) of the Torah's secrets. One can't denied what exists only ignore it. Demons exist. Is only logical and a scientific fact.
The human body, and it's functions, is an amazing self reliant creation. The process of washing one's hands 3× actually brings out ridges/fingerprints (turning the epidermis into a little scrubbing brush) which allows for a CLEAN way to wash the eyes. Cleanliness was survival and eyesight was necessary in these primitive times. I have an interesting theory about the eye. I'm not sure it would be well received in today's closed minded people. This was a great video btw and much appreciated.
This is probably not going to be a normal answer about what Jews believe or what normative Orthodox Judaism says. Rabbi Bar Hayyim is very "rationalist"(as in 0 mysticism), like he takes a lot of ideas from the extremely rationalist positions of Maimonides, which are largely rejected today, in favour of positions more like Nachmonides, which I think make more sense.. Maimonides got some criticism for trying to fuse Judaism with Greek philosophy.
@@sigmanocopyrightmusic8737 I think that given belief in God , and belief in a book that talks about angels visiting earth, then it's rational to belief in the angels visiting earth.. The word rationalism is not that useful. Even the word mysticism isn't necessarily that useful 'cos an atheist might say God is mysticism, but a theist if they see mysticism as a negative, might say God isn't mysticism, angels aren't mysticism, but well, maybe you can say what you'd view to be mysticism. And a theist that doesn't see mysticism as a negative, might see prayer as not just a request but as a meditative formula.. or have all sorts of beliefs about the nature of God far behond what their other co-religionists have. But the point i'm making in that comment was that that rabbi is from a more Maimonidean school of thought. People often categorise Maimonides as rationalist and Nachmonides as mystic. But if you read Nachmonides's work, he's very rational. and provides reasons against some of Maimonide's positions. Mamonides was a bit naturalistic but within a religious framework for example he thought that when angels visited Abraham as in Gen 18, they visited him in a dream. Whereas Nachmonides would say no they actually visited him as the text says. Maimonides would iirc ascribe any angelic appearance to something that happened in a dream.
@@boliussa I would define trying to describe GOD in detail like kabbalah does is mysticism. If you have rational reasons to believe in something it's true . You can discover if something is true through three means - experience , reason and The Torah and the complete Tanakh . If you experience demons or if the Tanakh mentions demons /spirits or you can rationally prove it then it's not mysticism. Sometimes your limited mind can't understand something but you might experience it and it's not mysticism to believe in something after experiencing it. The experience should be empirical. It can't be an inner heart based experience
@@boliussa also secular people have different definitions on rationalism. They would call our thoughts irrational. Reason can be manipulated. Just because something sounds true to secular mind doesn't mean it's true. What's your definition of rationalism
@@boliussa Dennis prager in his commentary believes that Hashem didn't actually descend on Mount Sinai and that it's an anthromorphic pagan description of god and he claims to be a rationalist. I find it hard to believe rationalists sometime
Superstition was literally all over the pkace, but I do not think that the sages of the Talmud were wise about everything else, except for what they spoke about evil spirits and demons. And although Babylon and Persia may have grown increasingly superstitious over time with abstract ideas such as 'Ohr Chochma' eventually becoming anthropomorphized by the Zoroastrians, the original basis of their culture was after all knowledge and wisdom. From my rather small and inconsistent exposure to the texts of these wonderful Jewish books, it seems to me that: A. Infectious disease. B. Other external or internal agenta that result in negative or inadequate state of the mind and/or lead to bodily harm. Examples of A numerous in the Talmud, at least in the few pages, I've looked trough We can actually incorporate B. in the much broader meaning. In this sense, one might say, that a man whose wife had left him and he doesn't want to see her again ever, but still refuse to write a get, can ne said to be under the influence of an evil spirit. Among stories found in the Talmud, we have a Rabbi stating that tgere thousands of daemons оn his right hand and tens of thoussnds on his left hand, describing the hands of a person who washes his hands frequently. There is also the advice of a Rabbi not to ho to the ruins of city that was recently destroyed, because of the evil spirits probably also referring to infectious disease due to decaying dead bodies; and when discussing two ways to tart seeing spirits and daemons, was to spill flour around your bed and see the marks left by the demons or by burning down a small kitty in fire until it turns into tar, then grinding it and sprinkling some of its ashes on your eyes. In the former case marks will be left out by mites. While these creatures usually eat dead skin and are harmless, in same cases the can be very nasty and hard to cope with, specifically when an allergic reaction against them is developed.They have a remarkably demonoid appearance under a microscope. On the other hand, burning down a small kitty will surely make you feel bad and ill-minded, so this falls under B.
Persian story: yes my mother (Iran-hamedan) also would do that, I think she would say "paress" !? for the same reason the rabbi says in the video! now the rabbi refers to these people in Babylonian times as "hacham" - WISE either they were going with the flow of the culture around them *instead* of TRUTH (yes that elusive word "emet" which is supposed to "stand" on it's two legged alphabetical shape), or the opposite which means all the others are *not* telling the TRUTH! so either one side is "wise" and the other "wicked" (LIES ARE WICKED btw) this "eylu v eylu divrey elohi,,,, chaim" axiume/ principal (call it what you like) is a LIE. why? cause it's suggesting as part of the non transcribed mosaic prophecy (baal peh) the Creator told Moses: left is the same right: both valid! up the same as down: both valid dry is the same as wet: both valid ETC I understand the desire to maintain "preserve" monotheism on planet earth through this one group (us, Jews) but,, yes BUT,,, by what?? LIES??! no dear rabbi they were not wise, and to call men to claim creators untranscribed message to be the EXACT OPPOSITE, makes at least one group not " wise" but "wicked" the entire so called rabbinical foundation is based on: let's do and say whatever as long as we somehow "maintain", "preserve", "survive", WE ARE NOT GOD STOP PRETENDING
If one truly follows Torah, then one truly cannot believe in such nonsense. The Torah says we must distinguish between one thing and another. It also states that If you commit murder, it is a sin. What if you were demon possessed? Wouldn't it be the Demon that did it or that the Demon made you do it? Absolute nonsense according to the Torah.
What you think about Exodus 7:10-12, where it states - *And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.* *Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.* *For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.*
@@mtalk828 Am I supposed to think something specific about these verses? Hashem was able to do one better when it came to the "miracles" being produced. From the situation with the rod turning into a snake to the splitting of the Sea but the greatest of all of them was the revelation at Mount Sinai. Do those verses have something to do with the topic of demons?
Rabbis within the Land of Israel and outside of the Land were influenced by the surrounding culture. Isn't it, therefore, a problematic approach to always privilege the opinion of Palestinian rabbis? “Opinion was… divided on the question of whether sexual relations should take place clothed or naked. The second-century Rabbi Shim’on son of Yoḥai denounced those who engage in sexual intercourse naked [see Vayikra Rabbah on Leviticus 21:7]. The story of Imma Shalom suggests that she remained clothed during intercourse. Both of these accounts refer to first, or second-century Palestinian rabbis. By contrast, two later Babylonian rabbis, Joseph and Huna, reject such practices as ‘the manner of the Persians:’ sexual relations must take place without clothes and a man who requires his wife to wear clothes must divorce her and pay her ketubah… Roman culture provides the explanation for the greater modesty of the Palestinian rabbis. Not only did the new moral code that became accepted by the early second century dictate chastity until marriage, but the sexual taboos between man and wife clearly resemble rabbinic prescriptions: lovemaking was to take place at night or in a darkened room, and women were to keep their clothes on. Thus, wall paintings in Pompeii reveal that even servants and prostitutes wore brassieres while making love” (David Biale, Eros and the Jews p.52).
why wouldn't israeli rabbis be privileged above babylonian ones, by the same argument? if they are all culturally influenced, what makes babylonian culture better than that of the Eretz?
@@Dadutta the work of the Babylonian rabbis does not reflect the local thinking. Indeed a mishna bame madlichin which is read by ashkenazim on erev Shabbat explicitly discusses how to dodge predation by zoroasrians.
@@Dadutta by the 4th century CE the centre of gravity of the Jewish leadership was firmly lodged in the Babylonian academies.. The Babylonian Talmud is100 years later than the Jerusalem one, far larger, and essentially in the format of debates, unlike the Jerusalem Talmud. Even the language is noticeably different, as there were differing dialects of Aramaic in the two locations.
1 Samuel 16:14-16 ? My daughter is a 911 dispatcher and she receives many calls on unusual spiritual activity. Not long ago a call in the next city took place where the family heard voices coming from the wall. The police and the fire department were called and the officers were actually corresponding with the voice in the wall. Many officers spoke with the voice. The wall was knocked down only to find that there was nothing inside. All of the officers who were involved had to go for counseling. Another call came in where a woman called and said two men dressed in black were there to get her. The call was transferred to the sergeant and shortly afterwards the Sergeant heard a thump. The woman passed away but prior to that she told the officer what she was experiencing. If you look online and research supernatural experiences with police departments you will find that they are quite frequent. My daughter has been a dispatcher for 13 years and has received many calls pertaining to evil spirits. We personally experienced actual supernatural beings that appeared to us.
If she hasn't done videos yet chronicling her experiences might I suggest she do so
Isn’t magic mentioned in the Old Testament..like the magicians who challenged Moses and the fact God forbids sorcery and talking to the dead such as Saul seeing the witch who raised the shade of Saul?
No such thing as an Old Testament. We do have an eternal Torah! It does include tanach
@@goldengun9970tanach is also from GOD
The management here is not much for answering questions all these years later, I wonder those things also
Whose to say what we today call germs aren't demons? This passage would seem to support it:
“Afflictions of the children of Adam [2 Samuel 7:14]. These lure human beings at doorways, wells, and toilets. Therefore, if a person places the Holy Name at his doorway-if שַׁדַּי is inscribed in its supernal crowns-they all flee far away from him, corresponding to what is written: No affliction will draw near your tent [Psalms 91:10]. What is affliction? Afflictions of the children of Adam” (Zohar 3:76b).
The Bavli seems to acknowledge that demons are a figment of the imagination:
“To one an evil spirit may show itself and harm him; to two it may show itself, but without harming them; to three it will not even show itself” (BT Berakhot 43b).
this verse literally lays out their parameters, it does not deny their existence.
Very interesting. Thank you Rabbi. Shalom
We are the creators of our demons and angels. Our demons are born out of our bad thoughts and our negative feelings , they enter our psychic house and if fed well of our destructive emotions can grow into maturity. They can converse with us on daily basis trying to gain more of their negative energetic bread.The same is with angels . Where do the Angels of Peace come from on the Shabbat night ? They come from our good thoughts and positive feelings that we have created by chanting the songs and prayers of peace.
The ramak is talking about statement in the zohar about washing the right hand before the left (i.e. using the left to wash the right). He refers to this a middas chassidus, not the entire practice of washing hands altogether.
I have experienced demonic activity and hauntings in my home, whole family. It is real.
Were you dressing like that before the demonic activity? I need to know who's influencing who.
It is real, I had couple of such experiences myself + There are thousands of testimonies about such fenomena here on youtube.
and the name of the daemon is Psychosis.
Jan Schlossar Lmao what
Stop eating fast food that might help
Isn't our practice of washing our finger tips/hands every morning directly related to the issue of evil spirits leaving the body after sleep?
Superstitious nonsense
Yes once you experience it then you know it is real. The only problem is, there is so much lacking in the Israelite world for how to take care of the problems. This causes those who are aware of evil to turn to other religious systems which have effective means of getting rid of the ghosts.
Don’t every time we sin we create a klippa or negative Malachim? When we say Kriat shema partly is because our body stays without a soul because it goes to shamain to give account of the day etc,
According to the RAMBAM in strict Monotheism there can be no duality or dualism such as for example as there is in Zoroastrianism between Angra Mainyu, the Zoroastrian god of evil, darkness, and ignorance and Ahura Mazda which Zoroaster referred to as Ahura, The Lord Creator, and Mazda, the Supremely Wise.
Zoroastrianism was practised in Babylonia. Judaism was increasingly influenced by Zoroastrianism, after the fall of the first temple Beit HaMikdash on Tisha B'Av, the destruction of the Temple and the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile of the leading citizens to Babylon in 586 B.C.E
It was a simple theology that seemed to explain why there was evil in the world or why would the Almighty permit evil in the world an attempt to formulate Theodicy, the question of why a good God permits the manifestation of evil.
There was a battle between the forces of good and evil, with the ultimate victory of good over evil. Those who sided with the forces of good, were supporting the Divine cause. The evil forces were regarded as anger, envy, lies and environmental pollution, etc. In effect the Zoroastrian followers had developed a form of angelology and demonology.
After during the Second Temple Period, when Jews were living in the Achaemenid Empire, Judaism was heavily influenced by Zoroastrianism, the religion of the Achaemenids.
The idea of Satan as an opponent of God and a purely evil figure seems to have taken root in Jewish pseudepigrapha during the Second Temple Period, particularly in the apocrypha.
The Book of Enoch, which the Dead Sea Scrolls have revealed to have been nearly as popular as the Torah, describes a group of 200 angels known as the "Watchers", who are assigned to supervise the earth, but instead abandon their duties and have sexual intercourse with human women. The leader of the Watchers is Semjâzâ and another member of the group, known as Azazel, spreads sin and corruption among humankind.
These are all foreign influences that the RAMBAM recognised as such and should be rejected.
Must be pretty convenient to adjust reality to your preference and blame it on foreign influence.
The demonic realms are heavily explored in Kabbalah. End of story.
Interesting perspective a lot of this makes sense to me. It should be noted though that Satan is explicitly mentioned in Job which could have been written around the time you mentioned.
@@leonlevy468 Reading the book of Job and not reading it in Hebrew one loose a lot of the meaning, I would like to say one loose the plot. It is a Poetic Book consisting of a prose prologue and epilogue narrative framing poetic dialogues and monologues. "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job" Uz is a fictional place to serve the story of Job, rather than a physical land. The word Uz in Hebrew means "counsel" or "advice", which here suggests that this story takes place in the "Land of Counsel". The book of Job addresses theodicy, why God permits evil in the world, through the experiences of the eponymous protagonist. HaSatan is translated as Satan by Christian translators. HaSatan in Hebrew means the Adversary. Anyone can be the Adversary or opposer, someone who offers opposition You, I anyone It could be a fictional character to play the role of the aopposer or literary the devils advocate. Rabbinic Judaism rejected the Enochian books (written during the Second Temple period under Persian influence), which depicted the devil as an independent force of evil besides God. After the apocalyptic period, references to Satan in the Tanakh are thought to be allegorical. Remember among some Orthodox (now dont think Orthodox is the oldest movement in Judaism the movement is a modern phenomenon. It arose as a result of the breakdown of the autonomous Jewish community since the 18th century, and was much shaped by a conscious struggle against the pressures of secularization and rival alternatives) It is not the largest main stream movement but among them they have the notion of HaStan as a angle but unlike the Christian Satan he is Not a fallen angel He cannot rebel against god nor can he do anything from his own will he simply play the adversary on the part of god to test people or to carry out punishment. Not all traditions in Judaism believe this. The book of Job is not a real story that is based on a historical event but a debate. The language of Job stands out for its conservative spelling and for its exceptionally large number of words and forms not found elsewhere in the Bible. A close analysis suggests that the foreign words and foreign-looking forms are literary affectations designed to lend authenticity to the book's distant setting and give it a foreign flavor.
@@justaguy1212 Which tradition there is not one tradition and how is it expressed in the or each tradition can you mention examples or are you just generalizing and guessing No its not the end of the story by far you are not familiar with the wide range of traditions when it comes to the many many traditions within Judaism and Christian traditions and Esoteric traditions? It would be pretty arrogant to assume one is familiar with all of the wide range of interpretations out there. As the good Rabbi mentioned You have books written on anything from how to make money with the Kabbalah to The Practical Kabbalah tradition
it's not exact snswer
May I ask the rabbai : Is not “el schadai”, “schadai” on the mesusa, “schin” on tefilin schel rosch and symbolising “schin-daled-jud” with the reziot - each marking protection against “scheidim”, whatever they might be ?
No, mezuzot are not in any way a protection! Its a mitzvah as any other! Lets end with these pagan believes among am Israel
It's not a required belief bc you can't find any of that in the Torah but you can find it in a lot of ancient literature.
"Jeshurun thus became fat and rebelled. You grew fat, thick and gross. [The nation] abandoned the God who made it and spurned the Mighty One who was its support." (Deut. 32:15) I think this is the key to understanding the Sheidim. Jeshrun abandoned and spurned God, thus allowing the new arrivals. In Psalm 106:38, notice how the land was "chaneph" or polluted after wrong sacrifice. The Sheidim are a spiritual pollution who come in judgment when God is rejected or his law spurned. It is a mystery, but I think it has something to due with Esau, who spurned and rejected all holiness.
Prophet muhammad (pbuh) also teaches muslim to wash eyes when we wake up in order to get rid of bad spirits
Excellent shiur! Thank you.
So... what was his answer? The best I can figure out is he's saying, "Maybe yes, maybe no."
What else did you expect? He's a Jew. You won't get a straight answer. Straight answers tie you up, give you a side. The Jewish people can't work their secrets that way.
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He’s saying he doesn’t believe in that stuff, he’s more a rationalist. But that some Jews do believe in it...but it’s not a binding belief.
@@lullylew9083what else is expected for a rasha to say.
There is no clear answer because there are certain things about life that are not clear. I do lean toward ghosts and demons aliens bizarre creatures reincarnation. With cameras etc many incidents have been recorded.
I put absolutely no stock into demons or evil spirits etc. My reason being is the Torah. It states I must choose to do good or evil, to follow Torah or not...how can you choose when demons control you or possess you? My feeling is that this clearly demonstrates that demons probably do not exist. I think that the people that believe....for instance that they are possessed believe the lie that they are...so much so, they act it out....very good actors can do wonders. If Demons theoretically have any power over any human being on this earth...most especially the Jewish people then isn't the Torah proved to be irrelevant? There would be no such thing as Free will. Thanks Rav Bar Hayim!
The Lord sent an evil spirit to trouble Saul.
There you have it.
The book of Abremelin the mage is also interesting as well.
my rabbai from my child hood i see rabbai brachman and believed in me but i am lost
There is nothing to explain, since there are no consistently observable phenomena to investigate. Hell, even if there was evidence, there isn't really anything that can be used to experiment on such phenomena. Evidence assembled for the existence of ghosts is largely ad hoc, anecdotal and difficult (or impossible) to duplicate or investigate further.
Explanations of ghosts supposedly dodging physical laws (like being semi-transparent or able to pass through walls) date back to Cambridge Platonist Henry Moore in the 17th century who suggested that souls (and therefore ghosts) are essentially four-dimensional beings, an idea that Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner promoted in the 19th century.
Using Edwin Abbott Abbott's Flatland as his foundation, Carl Sagan in the print version of Cosmos stated:
“”"If a fourth-dimension creature existed it could, in our three-dimensional universe, appear and dematerialize at will, change shape remarkably, pluck us out of locked rooms, and make us appear from nowhere."
-Carl Sagan. Cosmos pg 219
The problem is that most ghost lovers go the easier 'doesn't follow physical laws' route and call it a day. In reality they (though they don't realize it) mean 'doesn't follow three dimensional physical laws'.
Apophenia (seeing meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data) in conjunction with strong emotions can explain many ghost sightings. This combination was used by Carl Sagan to explain the Martian canals seen by Percival Lowell:
“”"There is no doubt that the Mars canals of Percival Lowell were of intelligent origin. The only question is which side of the telescope the intelligence was on. Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves."
-Carl Sagan. Cosmos
Which Yeshiva gave Moore and Zoellner smicha! ? The question was how do Jews see these phenomena
The Rambam says that magic is an allusion and is nothing and if one believes this than magic cannot hurt him
very interesting rabbi thank you. Shalom
So you say that existence of Demons is not in Torah?
Very well explained indeed! I think we ladies have no problems with it at all as we use a lot of cosmetics to wash ourselves!
@In some versions of the myth, hope had to work its way back into the box so that it could be found by Pandora. After all the evils were released, hope was left behind, but it had to voluntarily return to the box to offer solace to humanity. This aspect of the story emphasizes the idea that hope is not easily extinguished and can be rediscovered even in the most challenging circumstances. Thank you for pointing out the missing information, and I apologize for any confusion caused.🎉
Iam shocked, shocked I tell you that contemporary Rabbis and Sages can't agree on the existence of demons. I can understand that common less educated Jews believe in demons and superstitions. I can also understand why ancient sages were superstitious. There were and still are Jewish Rationalist and Jewish Mystics. Both believe in superstitions, but for different reasons. What does the Torah say about demons?
I want to know too
@@mtalk828 Then there is the Talmuc and Kabballah
So do the opinions of man supersede Talmud?
Those who do not believe are the fools.
Why he goes around the bushes so much? Why can’t he just answer the question straight forward? 🙄
There aren't any bushes in this video. Also the Rav prefers to give references and explanations instead of merely telling people what to believe. Everyone must be convinced and not believe blindly.
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there are evil angels, demons . demons are nephalim spirits, that which are the dead spirits of fallen angels cross breeding with women producing hybrids in the world.
If one says that Yehoshua (Joshua) saw the Angel of death and then threw himself on the ground. We can surely assume that Moshe Rabenu's talmid was well aware of most(if not all) of the Torah's secrets. One can't denied what exists only ignore it. Demons exist. Is only logical and a scientific fact.
The human body, and it's functions, is an amazing self reliant creation.
The process of washing one's hands 3× actually brings out ridges/fingerprints (turning the epidermis into a little scrubbing brush) which allows for a CLEAN way to wash the eyes.
Cleanliness was survival and eyesight was necessary in these primitive times.
I have an interesting theory about the eye.
I'm not sure it would be well
received in today's closed minded people.
This was a great video btw and much appreciated.
@@thomasranjit7781 Thank you so much for the guidance to new information!
This is probably not going to be a normal answer about what Jews believe or what normative Orthodox Judaism says. Rabbi Bar Hayyim is very "rationalist"(as in 0 mysticism), like he takes a lot of ideas from the extremely rationalist positions of Maimonides, which are largely rejected today, in favour of positions more like Nachmonides, which I think make more sense.. Maimonides got some criticism for trying to fuse Judaism with Greek philosophy.
I believe in demons. But what's your definition of mysticism. Believing in demons is rational. Mysticism means it's not rational
@@sigmanocopyrightmusic8737 I think that given belief in God , and belief in a book that talks about angels visiting earth, then it's rational to belief in the angels visiting earth.. The word rationalism is not that useful. Even the word mysticism isn't necessarily that useful 'cos an atheist might say God is mysticism, but a theist if they see mysticism as a negative, might say God isn't mysticism, angels aren't mysticism, but well, maybe you can say what you'd view to be mysticism. And a theist that doesn't see mysticism as a negative, might see prayer as not just a request but as a meditative formula.. or have all sorts of beliefs about the nature of God far behond what their other co-religionists have. But the point i'm making in that comment was that that rabbi is from a more Maimonidean school of thought. People often categorise Maimonides as rationalist and Nachmonides as mystic. But if you read Nachmonides's work, he's very rational. and provides reasons against some of Maimonide's positions. Mamonides was a bit naturalistic but within a religious framework for example he thought that when angels visited Abraham as in Gen 18, they visited him in a dream. Whereas Nachmonides would say no they actually visited him as the text says. Maimonides would iirc ascribe any angelic appearance to something that happened in a dream.
@@boliussa I would define trying to describe GOD in detail like kabbalah does is mysticism. If you have rational reasons to believe in something it's true . You can discover if something is true through three means - experience , reason and The Torah and the complete Tanakh . If you experience demons or if the Tanakh mentions demons /spirits or you can rationally prove it then it's not mysticism. Sometimes your limited mind can't understand something but you might experience it and it's not mysticism to believe in something after experiencing it. The experience should be empirical. It can't be an inner heart based experience
@@boliussa also secular people have different definitions on rationalism. They would call our thoughts irrational. Reason can be manipulated. Just because something sounds true to secular mind doesn't mean it's true. What's your definition of rationalism
@@boliussa Dennis prager in his commentary believes that Hashem didn't actually descend on Mount Sinai and that it's an anthromorphic pagan description of god and he claims to be a rationalist. I find it hard to believe rationalists sometime
Superstition was literally all over the pkace, but I do not think that the sages of the Talmud were wise about everything else, except for what they spoke about evil spirits and demons. And although Babylon and Persia may have grown increasingly superstitious over time with abstract ideas such as 'Ohr Chochma' eventually becoming anthropomorphized by the Zoroastrians, the original basis of their culture was after all knowledge and wisdom.
From my rather small and inconsistent exposure to the texts of these wonderful Jewish books, it seems to me that:
A. Infectious disease.
B. Other external or internal agenta that result in negative or inadequate state of the mind and/or lead to bodily harm.
Examples of A numerous in the Talmud, at least in the few pages, I've looked trough
We can actually incorporate B. in the much broader meaning. In this sense, one might say, that a man whose wife had left him and he doesn't want to see her again ever, but still refuse to write a get, can ne said to be under the influence of an evil spirit.
Among stories found in the Talmud, we have a Rabbi stating that tgere thousands of daemons оn his right hand and tens of thoussnds on his left hand, describing the hands of a person who washes his hands frequently. There is also the advice of a Rabbi not to ho to the ruins of city that was recently destroyed, because of the evil spirits probably also referring to infectious disease due to decaying dead bodies; and when discussing two ways to tart seeing spirits and daemons, was to spill flour around your bed and see the marks left by the demons or by burning down a small kitty in fire until it turns into tar, then grinding it and sprinkling some of its ashes on your eyes. In the former case marks will be left out by mites. While these creatures usually eat dead skin and are harmless, in same cases the can be very nasty and hard to cope with, specifically when an allergic reaction against them is developed.They have a remarkably demonoid appearance under a microscope. On the other hand, burning down a small kitty will surely make you feel bad and ill-minded, so this falls under B.
PersonallyI would not mock a genuine mekubel
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Yes
What about ghost?
yes ..
They do. ! They are real i've seen it take place , even moses faced it with the pharoh with the staffs turned to serpents. It spoken of in the torah.
Brothers search ruquya. Or jinn in youtube.
His lying theirs alot in the thlumud about dark magic
Persian story: yes my mother (Iran-hamedan) also would do that, I think she would say "paress" !? for the same reason the rabbi says in the video!
now the rabbi refers to these people in Babylonian times as "hacham" - WISE
either they were going with the flow of the culture around them *instead* of TRUTH (yes that elusive word "emet" which is supposed to "stand" on it's two legged alphabetical shape), or the opposite which means all the others are *not* telling the TRUTH!
so either one side is "wise" and the other "wicked" (LIES ARE WICKED btw)
this "eylu v eylu divrey elohi,,,, chaim" axiume/ principal (call it what you like) is a LIE.
why?
cause it's suggesting as part of the non transcribed mosaic prophecy (baal peh) the Creator told Moses:
left is the same right: both valid!
up the same as down: both valid
dry is the same as wet: both valid
ETC
I understand the desire to maintain "preserve" monotheism on planet earth through this one group (us, Jews) but,, yes BUT,,, by what?? LIES??!
no dear rabbi they were not wise, and to call men to claim creators untranscribed message to be the EXACT OPPOSITE, makes at least one group not " wise" but "wicked"
the entire so called rabbinical foundation is based on:
let's do and say whatever as long as we somehow "maintain", "preserve", "survive",
WE ARE NOT GOD
STOP PRETENDING
I don5 believe in the supernatural forces kenea hara
Never a straight answer from a Jew.... :/
Yes it isn’t as simple as just believe and love your fellow man. We prefer truth over making it up and making it easy to gain converts
If one truly follows Torah, then one truly cannot believe in such nonsense. The Torah says we must distinguish between one thing and another. It also states that If you commit murder, it is a sin.
What if you were demon possessed? Wouldn't it be the Demon that did it or that the Demon made you do it?
Absolute nonsense according to the Torah.
It’s very real. They exist in a different dimension. Enjoy your blissful ignorance
If only i can show you what i have seen....
@@287_shaikhmustafa7 like what?
What you think about Exodus 7:10-12, where it states -
*And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.*
*Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.*
*For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.*
@@mtalk828 Am I supposed to think something specific about these verses?
Hashem was able to do one better when it came to the "miracles" being produced. From the situation with the rod turning into a snake to the splitting of the Sea but the greatest of all of them was the revelation at Mount Sinai.
Do those verses have something to do with the topic of demons?
Rabbis within the Land of Israel and outside of the Land were influenced by the surrounding culture. Isn't it, therefore, a problematic approach to always privilege the opinion of Palestinian rabbis?
“Opinion was… divided on the question of whether sexual relations should take place clothed or naked. The second-century Rabbi Shim’on son of Yoḥai denounced those who engage in sexual intercourse naked [see Vayikra Rabbah on Leviticus 21:7]. The story of Imma Shalom suggests that she remained clothed during intercourse. Both of these accounts refer to first, or second-century Palestinian rabbis. By contrast, two later Babylonian rabbis, Joseph and Huna, reject such practices as ‘the manner of the Persians:’ sexual relations must take place without clothes and a man who requires his wife to wear clothes must divorce her and pay her ketubah…
Roman culture provides the explanation for the greater modesty of the Palestinian rabbis. Not only did the new moral code that became accepted by the early second century dictate chastity until marriage, but the sexual taboos between man and wife clearly resemble rabbinic prescriptions: lovemaking was to take place at night or in a darkened room, and women were to keep their clothes on. Thus, wall paintings in Pompeii reveal that even servants and prostitutes wore brassieres while making love” (David Biale, Eros and the Jews p.52).
why wouldn't israeli rabbis be privileged above babylonian ones, by the same argument? if they are all culturally influenced, what makes babylonian culture better than that of the Eretz?
@@Dadutta the work of the Babylonian rabbis does not reflect the local thinking. Indeed a mishna bame madlichin which is read by ashkenazim on erev Shabbat explicitly discusses how to dodge predation by zoroasrians.
@@Dadutta by the 4th century CE the centre of gravity of the Jewish leadership was firmly lodged in the Babylonian academies.. The Babylonian Talmud is100 years later than the Jerusalem one, far larger, and essentially in the format of debates, unlike the Jerusalem Talmud. Even the language is noticeably different, as there were differing dialects of Aramaic in the two locations.
@@vvanderer but they still ended up being influenced
Do devils believe in devils....lol
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