What is the Jewish view about the angel called Lucifer, aka, Satan?
Great question. It’s a lot different than in Christianity.
I can look up if there is a connection between the two (Lucifer/Satan) but Satan is a nominal from the Hebrew verb meaning “to turn away [from a path]” So in Judaism “the Satan” is an influence to turn away from what G-d wants us to do (ask your local Orthodox rabbi what you should “do” if you’re Jewish, or, see my previous posts on noahide.org)
Here is an analogy, I believe from the Zohar (one of the Kabbalistic or “mystical” books of Judaism) about the Satan. First we understand the Satan to be a creation of G-d’s, like everything in existence. So there is no grand adversarial conflict...G-d wins. But the Satan, being of G-d, has to be explained somehow—how can there be an evil influence in the world if the influencer comes from G-d? So he is likened to a prostitute that a king commissions to “tempt my son to stray.” (in order to test the prince) She knows the king, knows the prince—doesn’t want him to stray, but has to accept her mission. But she can’t go through with it so she sub-contracts to a friend of hers who knows of the king and vaguely that he has a son, etc...and the last (the 4th—since there are four ‘worlds’ in the created state—go ask your local Orthodox kabbalist) in this sub-contracting daisy chain never heard of the king or his son—she just takes the job and intends to do it.
If your eyes haven’t glazed over, I will say that Jews believe we have an animalistic ‘soul’ (really an enlivening force—like the energy between a living being and that which is missing in a corpse with all of its faculties) and there is a G-dly soul, a part of G-d within each person. The Satan usually tries to appeal to our base, animalistic desires (worse than an animal, who eats or ruts until it needs to no more-—we have a tendancy to overdo it just for the sake of pleasure) and even worse—can appeal to our intellectual faculties, telling us how great we are, how holy, how much more refined than so-and-so... the Satan is called the wise and foolish king... he knows exactly how to temp someone. So there are philosophies in Judaism of denying one’s self pleasure (or more than is needed for consumption/procreation, etc.
Anyway....I hope that was mildly interesting...even if (ahem) the thread has strayed from the Jewish conceptualization of angels. C’mon you hard-core evangelicals!!! I’ll have to keep posting stuff...
Phinneous