Suriel is named as an officer of the Divine Presence in Berakhot 51a of the Babylonian Talmud. The passage attributes three warnings to him in a report by Rabbi Ishmael ben Elisha. It provides a direct anchor for this profile without requiring every similar Enochic name to be treated as identical.
Suriel’s advice to Rabbi Ishmael
Berakhot 51a, in the Soncino English translation, describes Suriel giving warnings concerning an attendant handing over a shirt, handwashing by someone who has not washed, and the person to whom a cup of asparagus brew should be returned.
The stated danger is a company of demons, or, according to another reading, destroying angels. Suriel is the figure who warns of that danger. The surrounding discussion combines blessing practices, customary conduct and beliefs about unseen threats; it should be read in that historical literary setting.
Related names in Enochic lists
Charles’s 1 Enoch 20:6 names Saraqâêl among the holy angels. Meanwhile 8:3 assigns the course of the moon to Sariêl within the teaching list. These are different printed forms in different contexts.
They invite manuscript comparison, but the selected English passages do not establish a universal Suriel/Sariel/Saraqael identity. Nor do they establish an automatic division between every holy and fallen form based on spelling alone. This entry centers the clearly named Talmudic Suriel and leaves stronger cross-text identifications qualified.
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