Lilith's Children

Bava Batra 73b

And Rabbah bar bar Hana said: One time we were traveling in a ship, and we saw a certain fish upon which mud had settled and grass was growing on its back, and we supposed it was dry land and went up and baked and cooked upon its back. And when its back grew hot, it turned over, and had the ship not been near, we would have drowned. And Rabbah bar bar Hana said: One time we were traveling in the desert, and we saw those geese whose feathers were falling off from their fatness, and streams of fat were flowing beneath them. I said to them: Shall we have a portion of you in the World to Come? One raised a wing, and one raised a thigh. When I came before Rabbi Elazar, he said to me: In the future the people of Israel will be held to account for them.

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