animatedamerican:

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janothar:

overheardinwod:

janothar:

animatedamerican:

laughlikesomethingbroken:

jewishbookwyrm:

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grandenchanterfiona:

salora-rainriver:

grandenchanterfiona:

Does the devil have multiple stomachs? I’m trying to figure out if he’s kosher, if he exists. 

Why would you eat the devil

I wouldn’t. I was just trying to see. Turns out since he’s sentient, you can’t. 

I take that back.

Shedim, who are specified in folklore as being Jewish, can consume humans, thus implying that there is no ban on eating something specifically because it is sentient.

So, if shedim (and Lucifer) had multiple stomachs and cloven hooves, it would follow that just as shedim can eat us, we can eat shedim.

But wait, we don’t have multiple stomachs and cloven hooves. Forget sentience, how can shedim consume us?

idk dude theyre shedim they just eat us in between talmud study

okay but haven’t you just proven that shedim consume humans without regard to our (lack of) kosher status

I conclude that while shedim do eat us, it does not logically follow that they are permitted to, and thus we cannot conclude that we are permitted to eat them

By “the devil” do we mean Shedim or HaSatan? Thbe question is ambiguous. Though I imagine that eating an angel is probably frowned upon.

I’m honestly amazed there isn’t rabbinic discourse on the idea of eating an angel.

Do we know for a fact that there isn’t? It could be like the Binyamin-Werewolf thing where it’s only been looked at by a single or small number of Rabbis and we just don’t know them.

You know, you’re right, and now I have a headcanon of a small clutch of obscure 14th century rabbis actively debating and writing about the halachic permissibility of angel-eating.

This has improved my evening!

Okay, according to at least some interpretations, angels do not have physical bodies unless they’re engaged in a particular task that requires them to (and possibly not even then; they may have only the appearance of one).  By that reading, it would obviously be impossible to eat an angel.

On the other hand, if an angel is (as per some other interpretations) not a separate class of being at all but rather any creature that God temporarily designates as a messenger for a specific task, then it would certainly be inadvisable to try to eat an angel even if its physical form is kosher, as it has a divinely mandated task to accomplish.  Once it has finished this task, presumably it may be eaten, but at that point it is no longer an angel.

I am not familiar with any formal classification of the physical status of shedim.