e soul, and
this voice has ceased. Instances are also given of men overhearing the
conversations of the dead, and receiving profit from them. A man is said
to have heard one girl tell another in the grave, that those who sowed
their crops at a particular time would find their harvests fail. So he
took care to sow at another time, and he had an abundant yield. It is also
said that every Friday evening a second soul enters into the bodies of
men, and that it remains to the end of the Sabbath, when it departs. The
evidence of this second soul is shown by an increased appetite for eating
and drinking.

Good angels are stated to be daily created out of the stream of glory
which flows from the throne of God, and they sing a new song, and vanish;
as it is said, "They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness"
(Lam. iii. 23). The Rabbis also say that angels are created out of every
word which proceeds from the mouth of God; as it is said, "By the word of
the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of
His mouth" (Ps. xxxiii. 6). The following story is also told: In the hour
when Nimrod, the impious, cast Abraham into the midst of the fiery
furnace, Gabriel said before the blessed God, "Lord of the world, I will
go down and cool the flame, and deliver the righteous One from the furnace
of fire." The blessed God said to him, "I am the ONE in this world, and he
is the one in his world. It becomes the ONE to deliver the one." But as
the blessed God deprives no one of his reward, He said, "Thou shalt be
deemed worthy to deliver three of his posterity." Rabbi Simon, the
Shilonite, taught, "In the hour that Nebuchadnezzar, the impious, cast
Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah into the midst of the fiery furnace,
Jorkemo, the prince of hail, stood up before the blessed God, and said, 'I
will go down and cool the flame, and deliver the righteous ones from the
furnace of fire.' To him said Gabriel, 'The power of the blessed One is
not so, since thou art the prince of hail, and everyone knows that waters
quench fire; but I, the prince of fire, will go down and cool inwardly,
and heat outwardly, and I will make a wonder within a wonder.' " To him
said the blessed God, "Go down." In the same hour Gabriel began and said,
"And the truth of the Lord _endureth_ for ever" (Ps. cxvii. 2).

Israelites are forbidden to pray in the Syriac language, as the angels do
not understand it, and consequently cannot carry their pe