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Text from the end of the Oven of Akhnai story, Babylonian Talmud Bava Metzia 59b:1-5.

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Jewish Water Demon 🌒

Drinking from natural bodies of water at night can trigger a terrifying danger linked to sudden blindness, caused by a demon called שברירי, Shavrirei.

The Talmud gives a very serious warning against this, but if you absolutely must drink, these are the instructions to do so as safely as possible:

If someone is with you, you are told to speak out loud and name yourself as you ask for water.

If you are alone, the text provides a protective incantation that shrinks the demon’s name step by step:

שברירי ברירי רירי ירי רי

The demon can be weakened by shrinking it into nothingness through sound.

This Shavrirei warning appears as part of a larger Talmudic “danger instructions” cluster, where the rabbis preserve very practical sounding steps alongside demon language, which is part of what makes it feel like a real folk manual embedded inside a legal text.

The remedy matches the fear so perfectly. The danger is invisibility and confusion in the dark, and the response is to force clarity into the moment by speaking out loud, stating who you are, and then doing something that feels like verbal exorcism by dismantling the name itself until it is too small to hold power.

Shabbat Shalom.

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premise 1: "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" -> such a thing as a road that doesn't lead to rome but instead to hell

premise 2: "all roads lead to rome" -> contradicts 1. maybe at the other end of the road to hell is rome? no, because of course you can't get out of hell -- it's a one way road.

conclusion: rome is hell

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If you’re not Jewish, you can kindly shut the fuck up about the following:

The Talmud

Zionism

What is or is not antisemitism

The word “goy/goyim”

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A controversy from the Talmud by Carl Schleicher (1825–1903). Private collection.

Rabbi Eliezer to every rabbi who don't agree with him about a purity of an oven:

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couldn't remember this verse so i googled "bava batra thistle" and i can't fucking believe that worked

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