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According to some accounts, these beings are, in a way, leftovers from the very first week of existence. The story goes that God was creating, creating, creating, all day long for ...
It's wild, and it's connected to none other than King Solomon and the building of the Beit HaMikdash, the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. The story goes that the demons were, shall we sa...
We know King Solomon, wise and powerful, but he was also, according to tradition, a master of summoning and controlling demons. The Testament of Solomon is practically a who's who ...
Jewish tradition gives us a few different, evolving, and sometimes contradictory answers. One early picture, found in the ancient text 1 Enoch (specifically, chapters 22:1-14), dat...
Jewish tradition has a concept called Gehenna, often translated as Hell, though it’s more of a purgatorial realm of purification. And guarding the gates, or at least playing a key ...
We're not talking about a stern lecture or a time-out. We're talking about Gehenna. Now, Gehenna, sometimes translated as Hell, isn't exactly a picnic. It's described as being in t...
Jewish tradition definitely taps into that fear. In fact, there's this image, a really chilling one, of a literal doorway to Gehenna – often translated as Hell, though it’s more ac...
Some say they're locked away in a book, a very special book called the Book of Raziel. Now, this isn't your ordinary paperback. According to tradition, this book was revealed to Ad...
That’s the idea behind a powerful myth found in the Zohar (l:4b-5a), the central text of Kabbalah. It speaks of God constantly creating new heavens and a new earth. But where does ...
