Questions tagged [malach-angel]
Relating to Angels in Judaism.
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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:
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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"
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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
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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
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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? What ...
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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
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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
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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.
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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 ...
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Why did the angel overturning Sodom visit Abraham?
Someone in my synagogue asked today as follows:
Rashi notes (Vayera 18:2, q.v.) that three angels visited Avraham's tent: one was assigned to inform Sara [of her impending pregnancy], one to overturn ...
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The Angel at the Akeida
Braishis 22:12
וַיֹּאמֶר אַל תִּשְׁלַח יָדְךָ אֶל הַנַּעַר וְאַל תַּעַשׂ לוֹ מְאוּמָה כִּי | עַתָּה יָדַעְתִּי כִּי יְרֵא אֱלֹהִים אַתָּה וְלֹא חָשַׂכְתָּ אֶת בִּנְךָ אֶת יְחִידְךָ מִמֶּנִּי ...
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What angels have vanished after fulfilling their tasks?
I've read in various threads here that once an angel has fulfilled his task he vanishes.
I'm very interested in stories where this happens. What are some examples of stories where angels have ...
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Did the high-ranked angels merit to have their place or they had them already when they were created?
We read from Tanya (excuse me for not having the number of the verse) that:
כי מיכאל שר של מים וגבריאל שר של אש, ואין מכבין זה את זה
“Michael is the prince of water and Gabriel is the prince of fire,...
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How to define the Malach YHVH
The Malach YHVH is mentioned many times, but what is or who is this being exactly? How should one define: Malach YHVH?
It's the Malach YHVH that is talking to Hagar, but after the whole event she ...
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Earliest Sources To Avoid Pronouncing the Name 'Samael'
What are the earliest explicit sources that reference the practice of not pronouncing the name 'Samael'?
I ask since I have heard many people doing this. It is referenced here: http://www.yeshiva.org....
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What happens to the angels post tikkun olam?
What happens to the spiritual entities such as the angels when the tikkun olam is complete and Moshiach has arrived? Will they also attain a place in Olam Haba?
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How are angels categorized in Judaism?
Are they Neshamot or are they something else? Because if they are Neshamot they would be like us, so what forms a angel are they like Only Yetzer Hatov so they only have the desire to do God's will?
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Rabbi Nosson Finkel and angels
I read in Something To Say on page 31, the following:
Rabbi Nosson Finkel of Slobodkah once chided a student for being chronically late to the morning prayers
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How literal is the concept of the Throne of Glory?
I am aware of two other questions asked on this site related to the Throne of Glory, but I have a somewhat different question.
The baal haturim, in his commentary to the torah at Bamidbar 2:2-3 ...
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Did Jacob actually send angels to Esau?
The Torah (Genesis 32:4) says that Jacob sends "malachim" to Esau. Rashi there interprets "malachim" (commonly referring to messengers, or angels) as "real malachim" ("מלאכים ממש"). I've also heard ...
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Authenticity of Maggid Mesharim
The title says it all: what do various sources say regarding the authenticity of the Meggid Mesharim; a book supposedly containing angelic revelations to R. Joseph Karo. Did R. Karo really write it?
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man is greater than an angel [duplicate]
I heard from someone, that man is greater than an angel. For an angel can never reach higher levels in spirituality, while man can. In addition, man struggles with his evil inclination and an angel ...
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Does Maimonides Allow Prayer to Angels?
In his Mishna Commentary to Sanhedrin 10:1 Maimonides lists as his 5th principle the prohibition to pray to an angel even as an intermediary.
He counts this in his enumeration of his 13 principles in ...
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Counting of hours and days
The Torah states (Deuteronomy 18:10) “There shall not be found among you one who calculates times.”
There are however, "permissable" counting, such as the counting of the omer, the counting of
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What's the source for the phrase in Krias Shema al HaMitah: : ...בְּשֵׁם יְיָ אֱלֹקֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל and to recite it 3x?
What's the source for the actual phrase that is cited in Krias Shema al HaMitah: בְּשֵׁם יְיָ אֱלֹקֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל: מִימִינִי מִיכָאֵל וּמִשְּׂמֹאלִי גַבְרִיאֵל וּמִלְּפָנַי אוּרִיאֵל וּמֵאֲחוֹרַי ...
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So who is this "angel of the Lord" that call himself "the God of Bethel"?
There is only one God. So there is only one being in the whole world that can call himself God with the word "I".
Yet we have this malak Hashem repeatedly acting as if he is God himself.
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Yaakov asking for the angel's name
After struggling with the angel Yaakov wanted to know what the angel's name was (Bereishit 32:30):
וַיִּשְׁאַל יַעֲקֹב, וַיֹּאמֶר הַגִּידָה-נָּא שְׁמֶךָ, וַיֹּאמֶר,
לָמָּה זֶּה תִּשְׁאַל לִשְׁמִי; ...
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Can you do hachnasat orchim with angels?
Is it possible to fulfill the mitzvah of hachnasat orchim with angels?
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