Natan Slifkin

And they play a piece of music from George Friedrich Handel, the guy who wrote the Hallelujah song.

It's called Tzedok the Priest, and it was written in the 18th century, and the words are Tzedok the Priest, and Nathan the prophet anointed Solomon king.

Unto the people rejoice, may the king live forever.

It's wild.

And it approaches not just the idea of Messiah, but how people deal with things like miracles.

Is it more natural phenomena with really good timing or suspension of the laws of nature? Is science and Torah, do they go together or do they contradict each other? It's a great discussion.

Nathan Slifkin himself, an interesting guy, wrote a book called Rationalists and Mystics, where he goes through, he himself is a big rationalist.

But he goes through outlining how they tend to look at the world.

But I think he did a great job in the end.

And at the end, he quotes lots of references, Slifkin and lots of my first cousin, by the way, Slifkin and others, which I love now, son, at the end about these issues.

But he didn't want to weigh in for that reason.

But a voice like that was needed.

And then these are sources that you can look up.

And this is from Rabbi Natan Slifkin's book, Wrestling with Demons, The History of the Rabbinic Attitudes Towards Demons.

But here we're seeing something interesting, right? The demons don't eat the food that we would eat.

And the idea of them eating smoke and vapors, I think we see this a lot in the popular culture.