The Story of King Solomon and Ashmedai (Prince of the Demons)

A reading of The Story of King Solomon and Ashmedai (or Asmodeus, the Prince of the Demons), written circa 1340, and based on the Munich Codex of the Babylonian Talmud (Gittin 68a-b).

"The Temple, while it was being built, was made of whole, draft stones. Yet, hammers and axes, or any instrument wrought of iron, was not to be heard in the Temple while it was being built." – 1 Kings 6:7

Translated from Hebrew by David Ben-Abraham
Read by Dan Attrell

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