Abba_Yossi Abba Yossi appears in a Leviticus Rabba (one of the Midrashim of Judaism) around the fourth century, in both Hebrew and Aramaic and in several sources.Abba Yossi was at a spring in Zeitur, which appears to be in Galilee, when a female spirit appears to him and reveals to him that now, after her years of peace and service, there is a male spirit who is demanding her attentions and trying to drive her away from her spring.