![]() ![]() However, they are able to assume a visible form when they so desire by “dressing up” as if they were humans or animals. As a result, instead of possessing solid bodies such as human beings and animals which therefore are tangible and easily recognizable, these demons are of such transparent shape that they cannot be easily seen and identified. At the time of their creation they were composed of only two elements instead of the four elements which human beings, animals, as well as the plants have in common. ![]() Seeing that they are also light in weight they can fly all over at will. These “demons” were primarily composed of only 2 of the 4 elements which man is made of, i.e. Those feet that are in pain is from the demons. Those clothes of the Sages that wear out, despite the fact that they do not engage in physical labor, is from friction with the demons Those knees that are fatigued even though one did not exert himself is from the demons The crowding at the kalla, the gatherings for Torah study during Elul and Adar, is from the demons Summarizing the effects of the demons, Rava said: God protects man from these demons, as it says in the verse: “A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand they will not approach you” ( Psalms 91:7). Rav Huna said: Each and every one of us has a thousand demons to his left and ten thousand to his right. Similarly, Abaye said: They are more numerous than we are and they stand over us like mounds of earth surrounding a pit. In another baraita it was taught that Abba Binyamin says: If the eye was given permission to see, no creature would be able to withstand the abundance and ubiquity of the demons and continue to live unaffected by them.
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