The Messianic Banquet

Rav Yehuda said in the name of Rav: Everything that the Holy One, blessed be He, created in His world, He created male and female. Even the Leviathan the slant serpent and the Leviathan the tortuous serpent He created male and female; and had they mated with one another, they would have destroyed the entire world. What did the Holy One, blessed be He, do? He castrated the male and killed the female and salted it for the righteous in the time to come, as it is said: "And He shall slay the dragon that is in the sea" (Isaiah 27:1). And the behemoth on the thousand mountains too He created male and female; and had they mated with one another, they would have destroyed the entire world. What did the Holy One, blessed be He, do? He castrated the male and cooled the female and preserved it for the righteous in the time to come, as it is said: "Behold now, his strength is in his loins" (Job 40:16), this is the male, "and his force is in the muscles of his belly," this is the female.