Lightfoot quoted a source indicating that certain Jews washed carefully before meals so as to avoid injury by Shibta, “an evil spirit which sits upon men’s hands in the night: and if any touch his food with unwashen hands, that spirit sits upon that food, and there is danger from it. ”
राबिनी लेखों का उल्लेख करते हुए उन्होंने दिखाया कि काफी ध्यान ऐसी बातों को दिया जाता था जैसे पानी की मात्रा, ढंग, और धोने के लिए उचित समय ।