[Avodah] The Talmud?s Many Demons

[D&E-H Bannett]

I cannot see what could be scandalous or even surprising 
about the existence of thousands of invisible demons all 
around us. After all, don't we all still believe in them?  I 
do, because the evidence is overwhelming.

Chaza"l failed in their attempts to see them because they 
didn't have the tools.  Today, we have the tools to detect 
them and have given names to many of the demons, e.g., 
germs, microbes, bacteria, microorganisms, viruses, etc. 
We've even found them in water. all kinds of usually 
invisible single or multiple cells, amoeba, paramoecia, 
etcetria and etcetria.

We even have found some of the good demons, yehudain, and 
they are added to our yoghurt and called probiotics that 
improve digestion.

Very brilliant of chazal to have figured out the existence 
of invisible demons and differentiating between types, from 
noting the results of their activities without any further 
knowledge of how to see them or control their actions.


David