Shedim

And under the first category, you get words like Rephaim, you get the dead.

And under the second categories, you get words like the Shedim and the princes, the commanders that you see in Daniel 10.

And to the third category, you get Zazel, goat demons, howling creatures, wild beasts, Lilith, the leech demon of Proverbs 30.

Plus, you know, not to mention the great chaos monsters, Leviathan, which is not a crocodile.

The only thing you did was kosher over here.

So how did the other b'shedim learn? So the ran on the rift learns a p'shad.

It happens.

There's a Sefer Kol Chidusha Haran that I bring in once in a while.

And finally, so many questions came in, I'll just finish with this one.

Did the Baal Shem Tov banish demons from this earth? That's what it says in Sefer Zechranus, Shedim.

Shin Dalad's into the far.

Now it's not safe to take, now, okay, that's, it does say that.

As a matter of fact, there's a sikhah from Terumah Tov Shin Mem Dalad.

For the Rebbe speaks how the Shedim are no longer in existence.

And we asked the Rebbe about it.

But the Baal Shem Tov definitely did something, and it makes sense.

And finally, so many questions came in, I'll just finish with this one.

Did the Baal Shem Tov banish demons from this earth? That's what it says in Sefer Zechranus, Shedim.

Shin Dalad's into the fire.

Now it's not safe to take, now, okay, that's, it does say that.

I don't know if more has to be said about it, but that was the whole point.

He brought a whole new ghillie of alakus, which immediately banished and eliminated those negative forces that were more prevalent before.

The Rebbe said then in Petruma Memdala, an interesting thing, he said, after the Baal Shem, after the Rambam, there's no more Shedim.

So we asked the Rebbe, what's the source for that? Is it mean because the Rambam says, he Rambam and dismisses Shedim altogether as nonsense? So are we saying in order to avoid Machleikas, he could say, from the Rambam, from the Rambam on, there's no more, that way, though the others that say they're Rosh Hashanah, before the Rambam writes that.

And then of course it, it also brings us to Satan, Lucifer, and, and the, the milieu, let's say, around the... or the, the demonic milieu.

Um, and there's also a reference to this earlier Jewish idea of the Shedim, which are, are very similar, largely with a negative connotation, but similarly these kind of in-between beings, not quite angels and d- and not human beings.

What- whatever may have been the, the different nuances sort of on the ground with, uh, with the folk, uh, that this was subsumed within this broader idea of sometimes fallen angels.

But I would also say a strong influence from, uh, the angel of death and, and what that is as well.

I'm gonna go there just so that, um, I've got it up, uh, for me.

Um, in Deuteronomy 32:17, you have, uh, the presence of a Hebrew term, which is, um, Shedim.

Uh, and Shedim is a categorical term, uh, that is used of, um, spiritual beings that are evil and malevolent.

Mm-hmm.

Hmm.

He was like, I guess...

Seems to be an issue with Shadim.

He had a, he was delayed.

He also, when he finally showed up, Amrou, they said to him, Amal, what took you so long? Why are you late? Amalou, he said back to them, because, you know, I had to wait till all of the, I guess the water that other Shadim had drank from that was icky, went by.

So, In the meantime, he realized that the people anyway were taking the top part of the water off Ammar, and he commented, this is the shade commented, One second, if I would have realized that the people are accustomed to doing this, well, we actually wouldn't have taken so long.

because it could have brought back any water from the river, and the people would have anyway poured the top part of it off, so there wouldn't have been an issue of being concerned there might be something with the water, because the Shindalids drank from it.