[Avodah] The Talmud's Many Demons

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Wed Aug 15 10:07:39 PDT 2012


Maybe the problem is the translation into English as "demons".  I'd
prefer to translate them as "fairies", "sprites", or something of
that nature.  It better fits the way the gemara and medrashim talk
about them.

-- 
Zev Sero        "Natural resources are not finite in any meaningful
zev at sero.name    economic sense, mind-boggling though this assertion
                  may be. The stocks of them are not fixed but rather
		 are expanding through human ingenuity."
		                            - Julian Simon



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