Questions tagged [malach-angel]
Relating to Angels in Judaism.
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Why are there angels?
I understand that the translation of the Hebrew word מלאך means "messenger" and an angel is "G-d's messenger."
We see angels mentioned in various roles. Frequently, angels appear in dreams. Sometimes,...
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Eisav's angel fought Yaakov. Why Eisav's angel and not Gavriel?
I saw this dvar torah in a forum.
"וַיֵּאָבֵק אִישׁ עִמּוֹ" (לב/כה) פירש רש"י ז"ל : "הוא שרו של עשיו"
שואלים: בפסוק הנאמר על יוסף "וַיִּמְצָאֵהוּ אִישׁ וְהִנֵּה תועֶה
בַּשָּׂדֶה" (לז/טו) אומר ...
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What are the Princes in Daniel 10?
Daniel 10:13
And the prince of the kingdom of Persia has been standing against me
for twenty-one days, and behold Michael, one of the first princes, has
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Angels Frequently Visiting Avraham
Rashi (Bereishis 16:13) notes that Hagar wasn't frightened to see angels because she normally saw angels frequenting Avraham's household:
לְשׁוֹן תֵּמַהּ; וְכִי סְבוּרָה הָיִיתִי שֶׁאַף הֲלוֹם ...
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Guests are masters?
Rashi to Genesis 19:2 said that Lot called the angels his masters because:
"וַיֹּאמֶר הִנֶּה נָּא־אֲדֹנַי סוּרוּ נָא אֶל־בֵּית עַבְדְּכֶם וְלִינוּ וְרַחֲצוּ רַגְלֵיכֶם וְהִשְׁכַּמְתֶּם ...
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Won’t let go unless you bless me
In the moment Yaakov is wrestling a adversary he says: ‘לא אשלחך כי אם ברכתני’, I wondered if there are any commentaries which reads this differently.
I noticed that Rabbi Hirsch connects the root ...
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Source for angels surrounding one’s bed at night?
Nusachei Ashkenaz and Sefard include the following phrase in Krias Shema at bedtime:
בשם ה׳ אלקי ישראל מימיני מיכאל ומשמאלי גבריאל ומלפני אוריאל ומאחורי רפאל ועל ראשי שכינת קל
In the Name of ...
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Angel helping to find a proper wife?
At one point in time Avraham asks his servant Eliezer to go out and search a wife for his son.
In Bereshit 24:7 Avraham tells him that HaShem will send His messenger (malach) before him.. Eliezer ...
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How to define the Malach Panav from the book of Isaiah?
In Yeshayahu 63:9 there’s a mention of a ‘malach panav (מַלְאַךְ פָּנָיו)’, why is this malach refered to in this kind of way; why this specific entitlement; what does the combination of the words ...
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Malach HaShem, Malach HaElohim and the way it presents itself
I’ve a question about Shemot 14:19 in which the malach ha’elohiem (מלאך האלהים) is mentioned.
This verse explicitly says that this messenger who went before the camp, removed and went behind them ...
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Can a person who died count to a minyan?
There are many stories, such as an account that one year when there was a person missing for the minyan in Chevron for the Yamim Neoraim Avraham Avinu showed up to be the tenth, (an angel? with Rav ...
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The origin of Metatrons cube
I have been reading countless Hebrew and English texts about Metatron. In the English they refer to Metatron cube. However, I can’t find a single Kabbalistic text in Jewish Kabbalah that references ...
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What is the minimum number to comprise a band (גדוד)?
At the end of parsha 20 in Pesikta Rabbati, it refers to various bands (גדוד) of angels being shown to Moshe. Is there any minimum number as defined in Torah as to how many comprise a band?
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Can an angel perform multiple agencies?
Bereishis Rabbah 50:2 states that one angel cannot perform multiple tasks:
אין מלאך אחד עושה שתי שליחות ולא שתי מלאכים עושים שליחות אחד.
One angel cannot perform two agencies, nor can two ...
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What are the angels doing in the blessing on light?
In the Yotzer Ohr prayer, we praise God for creating the light. It then moves on to an interlude about the ministering angels. What does that have to do with the light?
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Why did the angel who destroyed Sodom have to visit Avraham? [duplicate]
רש"י בראשית \ וירא יח,ב
והנה שלשה אנשים אֶחָד לְבַשֵׂר אֶת שָׂרָה וְאֶחָד לַהֲפֹךְ אֶת סְדוֹם וְאֶחָד לְרַפְּאוֹת אֶת אַבְרָהָם, ... וּרְפָאֵל שֶׁרִפָּא אֶת אַבְרָהָם הָלַךְ מִשָּׁם לְהַצִּיל אֶת ...
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Can Angels “fall”?
According to this answer, the Pirkei D'Rabbi Eliezer (among other works) references an idea that angels "fell" -- were somehow separated from their holiness and "became" human.
This answer states ...
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Source that Song of Songs was spoken by the Cherubs in the temple
In a sermon on Passover a guest Rabbi stated that Song of Songs was actually the conversation spoken by the Cherubs in the Holy of Holies. He quoted a 'Rabbi Heller' in the latter's introduction to a ...
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Please specify the identity and function of Metatron in Judaism
The title is pretty much self-explanatory. I know that Christianity doesn't support the existence of Metatron, as the Scripture in which Metatron is mentioned isn't a part of the Christian Bible. ...
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Why did Metatron receive 60 lashes?
In the story of the 4 who entered Pardes (Chagigah starting on 14b) it says that Elisha ben Abuyah saw Metatron the angel sitting and therefore became a heretic. In order to show Elisha that Metatron ...
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Is it possible to lodge an appeal for a soul that has gone to Gehenom?
Unsong is a work of online serial fiction by Scott Alexander which is based heavily on Judaism. (I highly recommend it to Jews and Gentiles alike.). As I discussed in my earlier question here, the ...
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How could the angel of the sea disobey?
The Midrash in Bamidbar Rabbah 18:22 expounds Iyov 26:12 that when HaShem created the world, he told Rahav, the angel in charge of the ocean, to "open his mouth and swallow all the waters of Creation" ...
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Source for exclusively learning/seeking Torah from someone whose face is glowing like an angel?
I remember several times coming across a text that asked something along the lines of:
"Who should one seek/learn Torah from?"
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"How does one know whether to seek/learn Torah from a certain Rabbi?"
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Does a killer with permission lose his צלם אלקים?
Haamek Davar (ad loc.) explains that צלם אלקים (in Genesis 1:26–27) refers to an angel, also called a person's מזל, which envelops each of us and protects him from harm. He (to 4:14) explains further ...
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Is there any mention in Tanach of Angels have the ability to shapeshift into a human form
Is there any mention in Tanach of Angels have the ability to shapeshift into a human form?
I ask because Matthew Henry Commentary says:
18:1-8 Abraham was waiting to entertain any weary traveller, ...
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Are there descriptions of angels as female?
Are there any examples in tanach, talmud or midreshay chazal of an angel(s) who are described specifically as being female?
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Looking for a Maggid Meisharim with footnotes/he'arot
I'm looking for an edition of Rav Yosef Karo's Maggid Meisharim that has footnotes as well as some sort of scholarly historical background to the sefer. Does anyone know of something like that?
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Maggidim (angelic mentors) in Jewish history. How new is it?
Did the phenomenon of "maggidim" (celestial/angelic mentors) who come to teach a person kabbalistic mysteries and other revelations, but begin with those who studied Lurianic kaballah in the 1500's - ...
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Michoel/Gavriel Wrestling Yaakov
Although Rashi follows Chazal in identifying the angel which wrestled with Yaakov as the Sar (archangel) Shel Esav, the Yalkut Shimoni (132), Zohar Bo (51b), and the Pirkei D'Rav Elazar all identify ...
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Vayishlach - Angels changing names?
Parshat Vayishlach features the famous episode of Yaakov and the Angel wrestling. After this wrestling, Yaakov demands "Tell me your name" The Malach responds "Why do you ask my my name"
The ...
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Names of angels
There is a pretty well known point made in the Talmud Yerushalmi Rosh Hashana 1:2
stating that the names we are accustomed to calling the months of our lunar calendar came up with those returning from ...
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Aramaic sections of davening when alone
Generally
When davening alone, the angels hear/take our prayers to Hashem on our behalf (when Davening with a minyan Hashem hears our prayers directly). Example source (although this discussed ...
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Are there any rabbinic writings which attribute controlling angels and demons to King Solomon?
I saw an article claiming rabbinic literature spoke of Solomon controlling angels and demons. I'm not sure of the truth to the claim and was wanting to know if there are any rabbinic sources which ...
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Can we know if an angel is present?
All over the Torah we can find angels, but how do we know if and when they're around us?
Is there a Rabbi or some other source that can explain how or if there is an angel in the room?
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If God is all powerful, why does he need the angel of death to carry out the tenth plague?
If God is all powerful, why does he need the Angel of Death? Why did God need the angel of death to carry out the 10th plague to the Egyptians? Couldn't God himself just do it?
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Why do some siddurim switch the order of the angels?
I've noticed that in some siddurim in the prayer "El Adon" the last line has the order of the angels switched; that is, they say:
"seraphim, chayot, v'ophanei hakodesh"
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Are there any statements in ancient Jewish literature that refer to the dead as being like angels?
Are there any statements in ancient Jewish literature that refer to the dead as being like angels?
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Angels created through the deeds of man?
Pirke Avos 4:11
Rabbi Eliezer the son of Yaakov would say: He who fulfills one
mitzvah, acquires for himself one angel-advocate; he who commits one
transgression, acquires against himself one ...
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What is Jacob's ladder?
He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
Genesis 28: 10-17
What is this ladder? ...
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When Did Hashem Create Angels
I always wondered when Hashem created angels because nowhere does it say in the Torah when Hashem created angels, only when Hashem created the world.
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Is all evil an invention of angels? [closed]
In the book of Enoch it says that the fallen angels "Watchers" came to earth and taught humans evil, astrology, how to fight, cosmetics, drink blood and so on.
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Bereishit 3 :22 Angels or Hashem
Bereishit 3
22 And the LORD God said: 'Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree
Here is a major question I have,...
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Are there any sources for a story about an angel coming down and healing people at a pool? [closed]
The Christians have a story about an angel coming down to a pool (at Bethesda) and dispensing healing. (It sounds like they were anticipating this event.) Are there any Jewish sources for this story?...
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Are there angel creation myths in Judaism? [closed]
Are there any angel creation myths in Judaism?
If there are, would you kindly post the myth or the link?
Thank you!
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Is it a mainstream view that Satan is an angel testing us for Hashem so that He can reward us in Olam Haba?
An American Rabbi claims that Satan is an angel and he is not evil.
That Satan is testing us and that is good, so that Hashem can give us a good reward in Olam Haba. Is this a majority view in Judaism?...
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Do angels speak to the Jewish people today?
The torah talks about people encountering angels -- celestial creations by Hashem like Gavriel and others. (For example, Avraham, Yaakov, and Moshe encounter these beings.) And in the Talmud and ...
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“Hamalach hagoel” and idolatrous intent
In Genesis 48:15-16, Jacob blesses Joseph by (seemingly) requesting of G-d that His angel bless Joseph's children:
וַיְבָ֥רֶךְ אֶת־יוֹסֵ֖ף וַיֹּאמַ֑ר הָֽאֱלֹקים אֲשֶׁר֩ הִתְהַלְּכ֨וּ
אֲבֹתַ֤י ...
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Bais Yosef's magid/angel tricked him?
I heard (in a few dvar Torahs, though I can't find them now) that the Bais Yosef had recorded that his magid (the angel that taught him) had tricked him, and something like "from this we know that ...
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What is “Metatron's cube” in Judaism ? Is it truly mentionned in Jewish mysticism?
according to wikipedia The derivation of Metatron's Cube from the Flower of Life, which Jewish texts states, was excluded from human experience during the exile from Eden.
Is Metatron's cube ...
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Who saw angels?
Which historical figures in Tanach had visions of malachim (angels)? Which of these were themselves prophets (e.g. Abraham, Jacob, Balaam)? Which were figures very close to prophets but not themselves ...
