What is the position of Judaism on spiritual warfare?
Christianity teaches that there is spiritual warfare unseen around us. Does Judaism believe in spiritual warfare? I really think that with terrible events like the Holocaust; there is an unseen battle raging between God and his angels and Satan and his demons. Thoughts? A: There is no such thing as a fallen angel in the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh. It is an aspect of New Testament/Christian doctrine alone. Judaism has HaSatan ( the adversary) but that does not = the Christian Devil. There is also NO such entity as “Lucifer” at all in either the Hebrew Bible or Judaism, period. HaSatan is an angel and an adversary to humans, not to God, in the Tanakh. The word satan appears in the Hebrew Bible when simply meaning the word adversary a couple of times, but when referencing the angel of God, the prefix “ha” meaning *the* always appears. There is a very good web page that Rabbi Federow wrote explaining the difference between the Jewish concept of Satan and the Christian concept of The Devil (o
