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The Detroit Jewish News, 1996-05-17

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Of Farmington Hills

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The Angelic Host
And Jewish Thinking

Est. 1919

3040Q Telegrap0 Rd. Suite 134, Bingham Farms • 642-5575

n inveterate bookstore
browser, I have been struck
by the upsurge of books
about angels. Suddenly an-
gels are on everyone's mind. How
does Judaism view angels?
Jewish teachings about angels
go back to the Bible. Fiery cheru-
bim (a type of angel) guard the
gates of Eden (Genesis 3). An an-
gel arrives to tell Abraham he will
have a child (Genesis 18) and then
an angel stays his hand when he
is about to sacrifice that child
(Genesis 22). It is an angel
who saves Hagar and Ish-
mael (Genesis 21), appears
to Moses out of the burn-
ing bush (Exodus Ch. 3),
and an angel announces to
Samson's mother-to-be
that she is to have an ex-
ceptional child (Judges 13).
This list is but a sampling
of the angeology of the
Bible.
The Hebrew word for
angel, "mal'lach," means
messenger. One tradition-
al portrait of angels is as
functionaries who carry out God's
will. "Wherever the angel appears
the shechina (the divine Presence)
appears (Exodus R 32:9)." Angels
are used to give God distance from
the action. Since it is too anthro-
pomorphic (that is, giving God hu-
man characteristics) to have God
wrestle with Jacob, an angel
serves the purpose (Genesis 28).
Angels are God's entourage. In
the famous scene of Isaiah, God
is seated on a throne with angels
arrayed on the right and left. But
developing hints from the Bible,
later Jewish literature ascribes to
angels their own characteristics
and personalities.
Angels often appear in the
apocryphal literature, books writ-
ten by ancient Jews which were
not included in the Bible, such as
the books of the Maccabees. In
that literature and the
Pseuopigrapha —literature writ-
ten in the name of an ancient and
important character — angels
grow in stature. 3 Enoch explains
the function of various angels in
a long list (e.g. "Ram'amiel, who
is in charge of thunder; Ra'asiel,
who is in charge of earthquakes;
Shalgiel, who is in charge of snow"
and so forth). Apocalyptic writing,
which deals with the end of days,
is filled with the doings of angels.
The same is true of the Dead Sea
Scrolls where, for example, the
Manual of Discipline speaks of an
angel of light and an angel of
darkness.
In rabbinic literature, angels
sometimes show a little indepen-

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dence of mind. They even argue
with God, making a persuasive
case that human beings should
not be created. The angels argue
that people will commit offenses
against truth and peace. Since the
angels' arguments are not
refutable, God dashes truth to the
ground, and creates human be-
ings.
Jewish folklore sees angels as
guardians. A famous passage re-
produced in many prayer books
asks for the aid of Michael,

Gabriel, Uriel and Raphael. Each
has a certain guiding function, al-
though their roles vary. Michael
— "merciful and forebearing"
commander-in-chief of angelic
host, is guardian of Israel.
Raphael is the healing angel.
Gabriel is the master of courage.
Uriel is the angel of light, whose
name means "God is my light."
The rabbis teach that two an-
gels, one good and one bad, follow
us home on Shabbat. If all is pre-
pared — candles, challah, wine —
the good angel exclaims: "May it
be this way next Shabbat as well"
and the bad angel responds
"amen." If the house is not pre-
pared, the bad angel says "May it
be this way next Shabbat" and the
good angel, in spite of himself says
"amen."(Shabbat 119b). We may
think of it as the force of habit, but
the rabbis portray it as the force
of angels.
Some angels are less beneficent
and Jewish tradition is filled as
well with Dybbuks and demons,
and the omnipresent angel of
death. Ultimately, however, an-
gels have an ancillary role. In both
the Bible and later literature, Ju-
daism insists God is initiator and
arbiter of what happens here on
Earth. Rabbi Judan teaches in the
Talmud that God wishes to be di-
rectly addressed: "If trouble comes
upon someone, let him cry not to
Michael or Gabriel, but let him cry
unto Me (J.T. Berachot 9:12)." As
we recite in the Haggadah each
year: "And the Lord brought us
out from Egypt — not by an an-

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