(Patai81:455f). Numbers Rabbah, in: Judaic Classics Library, Davka Corporation, 1999. Lilith appears as a succubus in Aleister Crowley's De Arte Magica. References to Lilith in the Zohar include the following: She roams at night, and goes all about the world and makes sport with men and causes them to emit seed. [52], The correctly worded incantation bowl was capable of warding off Lilith or Lilit from the household. The names Senoy and Sansenoy are mentioned several times in first century Hebrew texts and they can also be found on an incantation bowl discovered at Nippur in modern-day Iraq. Hormin who is mentioned here as the son of Lilith is most probably a result of a scribal error of the word "Hormiz" attested in some of the Talmudic manuscripts. Is he not found, O Lilith, whom shed scent However, this view is challenged by some modern research such as by Judit M. Blair (2009) who considers that the context indicates unclean animals. amulet and asked "Who are these?" Ben Sira answered, "The angels who are in charge of medicine: Snvi, Snsvi, and Smnglof." [In English: Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof.] The condition was that Lilith promised that she would not touch any child that had an amulet inscribed with the angels' names. Two apples swayed upon a stem, This is the gap into which the later tradition of Lilith could fit. This monstrous couple was apparently first brought together in the 13th century, their combined powers allowing them to rule the realm of impurity. amulet and asked "Who are these?" Ben Sira answered, "The angels who are in charge of medicine: Snvi, Snsvi, and Smnglof." [In English: Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof.] However, nowhere do the rabbis specify what happened to the first woman, leaving the matter open for further speculation. The Bishops' Bible of Matthew Parker (1568) from the Latin: Isa 34:14 there shall the Lamia lye and haue her lodgyng. https://blog.nli.org.il/en/djm_sen-san-sem/, The figures of Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof appear here from right to left, 2020 . [85] Her gift was the "mark of a Sibyl", a gift of second sight. Another interesting text can be found in a manuscript which is part of the Bill Gross Collection and which received the rather generic title, Prayers Against the Plague. Their names are Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof. After ten years of growth, she comes to harvest it and finds a serpent living at its base, a Zu bird raising young in its crown, and that a ki-sikil-lil-la-ke made a house in its trunk. [44] The text is thus, to a community "deeply involved in the realm of demonology",[45] an exorcism hymn. A lovely dream I dreamt one day Asmodeus the great king of the demons has as a mate the Lesser (younger) Lilith, daughter of the king whose name is Qafsefoni. In the writings of the sages of the holy city of Safed (Zfat), in the northern Land of Israel, we find evidence that these rabbis sought to fight off the plague with the help of special amulets, among other things. As with the Massoretic text of Isaiah 34:14, and therefore unlike the plural liliyyot (or liliyyoth) in the Isaiah scroll 34:14, lilit in 4Q510 is singular, this liturgical text both cautions against the presence of supernatural malevolence and assumes familiarity with Lilith; distinct from the biblical text, however, this passage does not function under any socio-political agenda, but instead serves in the same capacity as An Exorcism (4Q560) and Songs to Disperse Demons (11Q11). God sent three angels, named Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, who found her in the Red Sea. Some uses of lltu are listed in the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD, 1956, L.190), in Wolfram von Soden's Akkadisches Handwrterbuch (AHw, p.553), and Reallexikon der Assyriologie (RLA, p. [64], Two primary characteristics are seen in these legends about Lilith: Lilith as the incarnation of lust, causing men to be led astray, and Lilith as a child-killing witch, who strangles helpless neonates. A birth amulet featuring an illustration of Adam and Eve. The reading of scholars and translators is often guided by a decision about the complete list of eight creatures as a whole. Lilith is also mentioned in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis. [citation needed]. Lilit would seek revenge on the family by killing the children born to the husband and wife. to ward of Lilith. Up to medieval times, Jewish people often kept amulets to . This is the earliest Jewish amulet to appear in paper print. . God at once sent the angels Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof to fetch Lilith back. Sent after her were three angels Senoy, Sansenoy, Semangelof. [104], This article is about the Jewish religious figure Lilith. First published in 1883, the poem uses the traditional myths surrounding the triad of Adam, Eve, and Lilith. [80] Richardson did not endorse the theory and modern lexicographers consider it a false etymology. C. L. Moore's 1940 story Fruit of Knowledge is written from Lilith's point of view. After Adam's body was created a thousand souls from the Left (evil) side attempted to attach themselves to him. Frankfort and Kraeling identified the figure in the relief with Lilith. A third alternative version states that God originally created Adam and Lilith in a manner that the female creature was contained in the male. Later, the story of how Aaron the High Priest was able to halt the plague with incense is recounted, along with what appears to be a recipe. [7], The Septuagint translates both the reference to Lilith and the word for jackals or "wild beasts of the island" within the same verse into Greek as onokentauros, apparently assuming them as referring to the same creatures and omitting "wildcats/wild beasts of the desert" (so, instead of the wildcats or desert beasts meeting with the jackals or island beasts, the goat or "satyr" crying "to his fellow" and lilith or "screech owl" resting "there", it is the goat or "satyr", translated as daimonia "demons", and the jackals or island beasts "onocentaurs" meeting with each other and crying "one to the other" and the latter resting there in the translation). The Alphabet text places Lilith's creation after God's words in Genesis 2:18 that "it is not good for man to be alone"; in this text God forms Lilith out of the clay from which he made Adam but she and Adam bicker. The amulets used against Lilith that were thought to derive from this tradition are, in fact, dated as being much older. Spelled as "Snvi, Snsvi, and Smnglof". God sent three angels after Lilith named Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof, who demanded that she return. The poem and the picture appeared together alongside Rossetti's painting Sibylla Palmifera and the sonnet Soul's Beauty. 47). It is preserved today in the British Library in London. Take a good look. The angels very names Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof are seen as safeguards against Liliths actions. God sent three angelsSenoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelofto find Lilith and bring her back. (Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin 69b). I own that these terms [lamiae and strigae] are found in the versions of Holy Scripture. The angels who were sent to return the woman to her husband were Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof. "[93], The depiction of Lilith in Romanticism continues to be popular among Wiccans and in other modern Occultism. Under the threat of death, Eve admits that she never loved Adam, while Lilith confesses that she always loved him: As the worst of the venom left my lips, However, in terms of textual popularity and dissemination, the motif of Eve copulating with the primeval serpent takes priority over her other sexual transgressions. Many have connected it to Lolita, but Nabokov adamantly denies this: "Intelligent readers will abstain from examining this impersonal fantasy for any links with my later fiction. [70] The marriage of archangel Samael and Lilith was arranged by Tanin'iver ("Blind Dragon"), who is the counterpart of "the dragon that is in the sea". This is in accordance with Jewish folk tradition, which associates Lilith both with long hair (a symbol of dangerous feminine seductive power in Jewish culture), and with possessing women by entering them through mirrors.[90]. Adam is said to be perfect until he recognises either his sin or Cain's fratricide that is the cause of bringing death into the world. The demon(ess) is entirely static.[52]. In this particular case, the "arrow of Lilith" is most probably a scrap of, "Rabbah said: I saw how Hormin the son of Lilith was running on the parapet of the wall of Mahuza, and a rider, galloping below on horseback could not overtake him. Major sources in Jewish tradition regarding Lilith in chronological order include: The Dead Sea Scrolls contain one indisputable reference to Lilith in Songs of the Sage (4Q510511)[42] fragment 1: And I, the Instructor, proclaim His glorious splendour so as to frighten and to te[rrify] all the spirits of the destroying angels, spirits of the bastards, demons, Lilith, howlers, and [desert dwellers] and those which fall upon men without warning to lead them astray from a spirit of understanding and to make their heart and their desolate during the present dominion of wickedness and predetermined time of humiliations for the sons of lig[ht], by the guilt of the ages of [those] smitten by iniquity not for eternal destruction, [bu]t for an era of humiliation for transgression.[43]. An amulet for women after childbirth, The National Librarys Amulet Collection, Jewish Mysticism, Joseph Dan, Jerusalem : J. Aronson, 1999, Some sources of Jewish-Arabic demonology, Gershom Scholem, JJS, Vol. In memory of Adam and Eve, excluding Lilith, a protective amulet against demons and harmful forces, from the exhibition book Back to the Shtetl An-Sky and the Jewish Ethnographic Expedition, The Israel Museum, 1994, How was this sense of equality manifested? In later periods paint-ed amulets were prepared, and these in time were replaced by prints. Senoy became Saint Sisoe, Sansenoy became Sisynios and Semangelof appears as Synidores. XIV, 16)! Although in the medieval Hebrew literature and folklore, especially that reflected on the protective amulets of various kinds, Chavvah ha-Rishonah was identified with Lilith, one should remain careful in transposing this equation to the Late Antiquity.[49]. . Taking pity on Lamia, Zeus gave her the ability to remove and replace her eyes from their sockets. The invocations mention Adam, Eve and Lilith, 'Chavah Rishonah' (the first Eve, who is identical with Lilith), also devils or angels: Sanoy, Sansinoy, Smangeluf, Shmari'el (the guardian) and Hasdi'el (the merciful). Though the names are not completely identical, the same whispering, threatening motif can be heard here as well. All rights reserved The National Library of Israel 2017 , The sages of Safed created amulets, the Jews of Italy wrote prayers and other Jews warned of less conventional plagues. Nebuchadnezzar sets forth various ordeals for Ben Sira, who responds with 22 stories. Charles Fossey (1902) has this literally translating to "female night being/demon", although cuneiform inscriptions from Mesopotamia exist where Llt and Lltu refers to disease-bearing wind spirits. Senoy, Sansenoy and Smangeluf (sometimes written Semangelof, or Snvi, Snsnvi and Smnglof) are three guarding angels in the Jewish mythology. [45][46] However, John J. Collins[47] regards this identification as "intriguing" but that it is "safe to say" that (4Q184) is based on the strange woman of Proverbs 2, 5, 7, 9: Her house sinks down to death, For you are fit only to be in the bottom position, while I am to be the superior one." This is the account of Lilith which was received by the Sages in the Secret Knowledge of the Palaces.[67]. What is the origin of these three angels? Adam stood in prayer before his Creator: 'Sovereign of the universe!' he said, 'the woman you gave me has run away.' At once, the Holy One, blessed be He, sent these three angels Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, to bring her back. (The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,) But she swore to them by the name of the living and eternal God: "Whenever I see you or your names or your forms in an amulet, I will have no power over that infant." The rose and poppy are her flower; for where An amulet for safeguarding a newborn child and its mother with an incantation against Lilith. [16], The Sumerian female demons lili have no etymological relation to Akkadian lilu, "evening". A thousand years later, the residents of the land were still dealing with fairly frequent outbreaks. She said, "I will not lie below," and he said, "I will not lie beneath you, but only on top. The names of the angels Senoy, Sansenoy and Samengelof also appear, as do the names Lilith and Satan. And the Serpent seduced Holy Eve, and enough said for him who understands. "I was created only to cause sickness to infants. The Angel Senoy,not much is Known of this mysterious being.Thought to have been trapped in a statue after YHVH sent Senoy,and his two brothers, Sansenoy and Semangelof to bring back Lilith to Adam. [27], A connection between the Gilgamesh ki-sikil-lil-la-ke and the Jewish Lilith was rejected on textual grounds by Sergio Ribichini (1978). In this tradition it is made clear that Samael and Lilith were born as one, similar to the form of Adam and Eve who were also born as one, reflecting what is above. the first Adam). He then separates from holy Eve, sleeps alone, and fasts for 130 years. The subsequent creation is performed with adequate precautions: Adam is made to sleep, so as not to witness the process itself (Sanhedrin 39a), and Eve is adorned with fine jewellery (Genesis rabbah 18:1) and brought to Adam by the angels Gabriel and Michael (ibid. And all who possess her will descend to the Pit. And her course leads to the shades. Demon-Busting Magical Bowls from Babylon! A publication about birth customs by the Jewish Museum of Switzerland also includes oral accounts from 20th century Baden-Wrttemberg which likewise mention circling movements with a knife in order to protect a woman in childbirth.[82]. The two twin androgynous couples resembled each other and both "were like the image of Above"; that is, that they are reproduced in a visible form of an androgynous deity. [84] Lamia had a vicious sexual appetite that matched her cannibalistic appetite for children. [87] [13], Interpretations of Lilith found in later Jewish materials are plentiful, but little information has survived relating to the Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian view of this class of demons. Commentators and interpreters often envision the figure of Lilith as a dangerous demon of the night, who is sexually wanton, and who steals babies in the darkness. [13]:174. "Return to Adam without delay," the angels said, "or we will drown you!" Lilith asked: "How can I return to Adam and . For Evil Lilith, when she saw the greatness of his corruption, became strong in her husks, and came to Adam against his will, and became hot from him and bore him many demons and spirits and Lilin. (Yalqut Reubeni, Zohar 1:34b, 3:19[79]), Charles Richardson's dictionary portion of the Encyclopdia Metropolitana appends to his etymological discussion of lullaby "a [manuscript] note written in a copy of Skinner" [i.e. Amsterdam, circa 1700. (c. 10th century), which was followed by the Zohar and other Kabbalistic writings. Leland further notes that Herodias is a name that comes from west Asia, where it denoted an early form of Lilith. Jewish magical inscriptions on bowls and amulets from the 6th century AD onward identify Lilith as a female demon and provide the first visual depictions of her. Lilith responded, "We are equal to each other inasmuch as we were both created from the earth." [citation needed] However, the idea that Lilith was the predecessor may be exclusive to the Alphabet. In Hebrew-language texts, the term lilith or lilit (translated as "night creatures", "night monster", "night hag", or "screech owl") first occurs in a list of animals in Isaiah 34. The three angels' names, Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof, were written on the entrance door. [b] In Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld, a huluppu tree grows in Inanna's garden in Uruk, whose wood she plans to use to build a new throne. Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof made a deal with Lilith. This idea was further attested by Doreen Valiente, who cited her as a presiding goddess of the Craft: "the personification of erotic dreams, the suppressed desire for delights". Blind Dragon acts as an intermediary between Lilith and Samael: Blind Dragon rides Lilith the Sinful may she be extirpated quickly in our days, Amen! ~Ari'el Share [7] In the Ancient Mesopotamian religion, found in cuneiform texts of Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia Lilith signifies a spirit or demon.[1][8][9]. In every place where a man sleeps alone in a house, she visits him and grabs him and attaches herself to him and has her desire from him, and bears from him. [6], The name Lilith stems from lil, liltu, and (w)ardat lil). Although the image of Lilith of the Alphabet of Ben Sira is unprecedented, some elements in her portrayal can be traced back to the talmudic and midrashic traditions that arose around Eve. Chavvah ha-Rishonah, analogically to the phrase Adam ha-Rishon, i.e. . ), Ribichini, S. (1976) "Lilith nell-albero Huluppu", pp. While God created Adam, who was alone, He said, "It is not good for man to be alone" (Genesis 2:18). [77], The sheet contains two texts within borders, which are amulets, one for a male ('lazakhar'), the other one for a female ('lanekevah'). 16, 1965, p. 1-13, The Black Suitcase of Magical Amulets with a Mysterious History. She shall become an abode for jackals and a haunt for ostriches. The issue of these unions were demons and spirits called "the plagues of humankind", and the usual added explanation was that it was through Adam's own sin that Lilith overcame him against his will. Lilith and Faust engage in a short dialogue, where Lilith recounts the days spent in Eden. At this point, the three angels enter the picture. After Mephistopheles offers this warning to Faust, he then, quite ironically, encourages Faust to dance with "the Pretty Witch". One mentions her creation as being before Adam's, on the fifth day, because the "living creatures" with whose swarms God filled the waters included Lilith. The background and purpose of The Alphabet of Ben-Sira is unclear. At once, the Holy One, blessed be He, sent these three angels Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, to bring her back. To avert danger, it was held wise to strike the sleeping child's lips with one finger-whereupon Lilith would vanish. 34:14 "And shall-meet wildcats[35] with jackals They told her God's word, but she did not wish to return. Yet another version claims that Lilith emerged as a divine entity that was born spontaneously, either out of the Great Supernal Abyss or out of the power of an aspect of God (the Gevurah of Din). Adam complained to God: "I have been deserted by my helpmeet." God at once sent the angels Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof to fetch Lilith back. The figures of Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof appear here from right to left The quest for a proven, functioning magical amulet, one whose supernatural powers can be trusted with certainty, has led buyers to prefer amulets ordained with fixed and familiar mystic formulas. The figure is often depicted with arms and legs chained, indicating the control of the family over the demon(ess). Lilith claims that since she and Adam were created in the same way they were equal and she refuses to submit to him: After God created Adam, who was alone, He said, "It is not good for man to be alone." The 3 Angels names are Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof. those of three angels, Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangeloph. Who is that?Mephistopheles: [89] Symbols appearing in the painting allude to the "femme fatale" reputation of the Romantic Lilith: poppies (death and cold) and white roses (sterile passion). [83], According to Siegmund Hurwitz the Talmudic Lilith is connected with the Greek Lamia, who, according to Hurwitz, likewise governed a class of child stealing lamia-demons. These amulets are mentioned in the Ben Sirah, and in fact, the story probably exists to give a more religious justification for the otherwise pretty superstition-and-magic . She is mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud (Eruvin 100b, Niddah 24b, Shabbat 151b, Baba Bathra 73a), in the Book of Adam and Eve as Adam's first wife, and in the Zohar Leviticus 19a as "a hot fiery female who first cohabited with man". Moss. Surrounding the image is writing in spiral form; the writing often begins at the centre and works its way to the edge. [76], The Zohar adds further that two female spirits instead of one, Lilith and Naamah, desired Adam and seduced him. [84] One source states simply that she is a daughter of the goddess Hecate, another, that Lamia was subsequently cursed by the goddess Hera to have stillborn children because of her association with Zeus; alternatively, Hera slew all of Lamia's children (except Scylla) in anger that Lamia slept with her husband, Zeus. And find again the paths of life. It made its way to the Land of Israel from Egypt around 541-542 AD. [63] Asmodeus was already well known by this time because of the legends about him in the Talmud. In many 17th century Kabbalistic books, this seems to be a reinterpretation of an old Talmudic myth where God castrated the male Leviathan and slew the female Leviathan in order to prevent them from mating and thereby destroying the Earth with their offspring. And still she sits, young while the earth is old, [40][41], et occurrent daemonia onocentauris et pilosus clamabit alter ad alterum ibi cubavit lamia et invenit sibi requiem. Lilith was also one of the middle names of Crowley's first child, Nuit Ma Ahathoor Hecate Sappho Jezebel Lilith Crowley (19041906), and Lilith is sometimes identified with Babalon in Thelemic writings. His main partner is his wife, Lilith. [100][pageneeded], Many theistic Satanists consider Lilith as a goddess. Lilith appears in historiolas (incantations incorporating a short mythic story) in various concepts and localities[4] that give partial descriptions of her. etc. The amulets used against Lilith that were thought to derive from this tradition are in fact, . If you placed an amulet with the name of the 3 Angels on it, and placed it on the baby, lilith could not harm it. The mask from my soul with a kiss I crawl The last manuscript which we will present also hails from 19th century Italy. The angels made a threat Of drowning her in the sea She . Isa 34:14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. [31], The Arslan Tash amulets are limestone plaques discovered in 1933 at Arslan Tash, the authenticity of which is disputed. Adams first wife is described as having been created from dust, just as he was, and therefore, argues scholar Joseph Dan, she saw herself as his equal in every aspect. Frequently amulets were place in the four corners and throughout the bedchamber. There are five references to Lilith in the Babylonian Talmud in Gemara on three separate Tractates of the Mishnah: The above statement by Hanina may be related to the belief that nocturnal emissions engendered the birth of demons: The Midrash Rabbah collection contains two references to Lilith. The idea in the text that Adam had a wife prior to Eve may have developed from an interpretation of the Book of Genesis and its dual creation accounts; while Genesis 2:22 describes God's creation of Eve from Adam's rib, an earlier passage, 1:27, already indicates that a woman had been made: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." Scholars tend to date the Alphabet between the 8th and 10th centuries AD. [50] However, to be exact the said passages do not employ the Hebrew word lilith itself and instead speak of "the first Eve" (Heb. [75] Gershom Scholem proposes that the author of the Zohar, Rabbi Moses de Leon, was aware of both the folk tradition of Lilith and another conflicting version, possibly older. The grief caused Lamia to turn into a monster that took revenge on mothers by stealing their children and devouring them. When Lilith sees their names, she remembers her oath, and the child recovers. "A husk (klippa) was created around the brain" and this husk spread and brought out another husk, which was Lilith. While researchers almost universally agree that a connection exists, recent scholarship has disputed the relevance of two sources previously used to connect the Jewish lilith to an Akkadian liltu the Gilgamesh appendix and the Arslan Tash amulets[14] (see below for discussion of these two problematic sources). Since the most common Jewish amulets known to us are those designed to protect women giving birth, we can safely assume that the three angels who appear on these types of charms are among the most common figures associated with the Hebrew amulet. In the Akkadian language of Assyria and Babylonia, the terms lili and lltu mean spirits. No Children Allowed: Introducing Lilith, the Jewish Vampire Queen. Whether this particular tradition is older is not known. Moses pleads before God, that God should not be like Lilith who kills her own children. While God created Adam, who was alone, He said, "It is not good for man to be alone" (Genesis 2:18). A similar set of charges appears in Genesis Rabbah 17:8, according to which Eve's creation from Adam's rib rather than from the earth makes her inferior to Adam and never satisfied with anything. And this Blind Dragon brings about the union between Samael and Lilith. Apples have been man's desire. Beware of her. These talismans invoke the names of the angels Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, or sometimes the prophet Elijah, in order to protect young children from the grasp of Lilith. Four guests protect Smamit from the demon; the names of three of them are Soney, Sosoney and Senigly. In the Latin Vulgate Book of Isaiah 34:14, Lilith is translated lamia. [61] The concept of Eve having a predecessor is not exclusive to the Alphabet, and is not a new concept, as it can be found in Genesis Rabbah. The "screech owl" translation of the King James Version is, together with the "owl" (yanup, probably a water bird) in 34:11 and the "great owl" (qippoz, properly a snake) of 34:15, an attempt to render the passage by choosing suitable animals for difficult to translate Hebrew words. Another passage charges Lilith as being a tempting serpent of Eve. Such an amulet would have been attached to the wall or door of the birthroom to protect the occupants. gone , were inscribed. According to Genesis rabbah 18:4, Adam was disgusted upon seeing the first woman full of "discharge and blood", and God had to provide him with another one. An amulet attributed to Isaac Luria, "The Holy ARI", 1855, 2020 , Prayers, Amulets and Spells to Ward off Plague. Below it, were the names of the primogenitors: Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah. The Geneva Bible of William Whittingham (1587) from the Hebrew: Isa 34:14 and the screech owl shall rest there, and shall finde for her selfe a quiet dwelling. On Adam's request, God sent three angels, named Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, who found her in the Red Sea. Faust: [dancing with the young witch] Second, this new woman is still met with harsh rabbinic allegations. He then created a woman for Adam, from the earth, as He had created Adam himself, and called her . [47][52] These bowls were buried upside down below the structure of the house or on the land of the house, in order to trap the demon or demoness. Many of the traditional characteristics of Lilith mythology are present in the author's depiction: Long dark hair, pale skin, a hatred and fear of children and babies, and an obsession with gazing at herself in a mirror. Throughout the 16th century, plague spread across different parts of the Middle East. Moses responds to a threat by God that He will destroy the Israelite people. Said the Holy One to Adam, 'If she agrees to come back, what is made is good. However, God drove them off. As opposed to the Kabbalists of Safed, who invoked the secret divine names to save themselves, the scribes of this manuscript decided to make use of canonical texts telling of the victories of God over the various plagues which threatened the People of Israel. The above-mentioned angels went in search of her, promising to bring her back. Ben Sira is presented as the son of Jeremiah, born to the prophet's own daughter who dipped in a mikveh into which Jeremiah was previously forced to lay seed. She doesn't soon let go of them again. Once they saddled for him two mules which stood on two bridges of the Rognag; and he jumped from one to the other, backward and forward, holding in his hands two cups of wine, pouring alternately from one to the other, and not a drop fell to the ground." 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