Kabbalah su Esodo 21:78

In relation to mysteries of the Torah we have to employ an allegory. There is a soul that is the Matron, [Drawn from Malchut of Atzilut] and there is a soul that is a handmaid [Drawn from the world of Beriyah] such as in, "And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant" (Exodus 21:7). And there is a soul that is a common maid [From the world of Asiyah]. And so is man. There is a man who is a servant to the soul. Sometimes the soul goes by means of incarnation, [Because of a sin in the previous incarnation], "the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot" (Genesis 8:9), [The soul is not at rest due to this previous sin]. And the Evil Inclination chases it to enter that body, which is a maid to the Evil Inclination. It is a Jewish 'demon' and the soul is Yud {which is called} a Hebrew maidservant, in which this demon (Heb. שֵׁד) becomes Shadai, [Shed plus the letter Yud] because it kept the soul and repented through it, and with it blessed the Holy One, blessed be He, daily with 'Blessed (Heb. בָרוּך)', and with it sanctifies the Holy One, blessed be He, with 'Holy, holy, holy', and with it declares the unity of the Holy One, blessed be He, by Kriat Sh'ma.

{Then} what used to be a demon, [Which causes harm] turns around to be its angel {the aspect of} Metatron and turned {to become} Shadai, because the numerical value of Metatron is that of Shadai. Immediately there is fulfilled in it {i.e. the soul} "and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days" (Deuteronomy 22:19). But if he does not repent, {the soul} is enslaved in him through the iniquities he committed and it shall be fulfilled in him, "the wife and her children shall be her master's" (Exodus 21:4), [meaning the soul will leave the person so his root] and it says of the demon which is its debtor, "and he shall go out by himself" (Ibid.), [Without a remedy]. That demon is like Moses' staff that turns from a staff into a snake and from a snake into a staff. So does this demon turn from a demon into an angel and from an angel into a demon, according to man's deeds.

Rabbi Itzchak and Rabbi Yehuda were going from Usha to Lod. Rabbi Yehuda (Yitzchak) said: let's say some words of Torah and then go. Rabbi Yehuda (other versions Yitzchak) opened with the verse: " When a person opens a pit, or digs a pit etc" (Exodus 21:33). What is written after it? "the one responsible for the pit must pay etc". And if this is so in this case, to those who bring evil in the world through their transgressions all the more! I am astounded by this - they brought evil into the world, why is there teshuvah for them, as it is written "man or woman, when they do evil etc" (Numbers 5:6) "they shall confess the wrong and return etc" (Numbers 5:7)

And when Rabbi Nehunya ben Hakkanah saw this decree, he caused me at once to descend to the Merkabha and I questioned Surya the Prince of the Presence. And he said to me: “Ten men did the heavenly court of justice write down, and gave them unto Sammael the wicked, the genius of Rome, saying: ‘Go out and destroy from the mighty of Israel every good member, thigh and shoulder, to fulfill the decree’: “And he that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.” And the sons of Jacob stole Joseph their brother and sold him, what shall be done concerning them? At once was the authority given to Samael to destroy ten of the mighty in their stead, in order to fulfill the decree. And a vengeance to be avenged upon him is laid up against him until the time shall come when ‘The Lord shall punish the host of the high ones on high,’ for he shall be cut down and cast upon the earth, ne and all the princes of the kingdoms in the height, as the goats and sheep of the day of atonement.”