Sanbat is the personified and deified Sabbath of Beta Israel religion, the tradition's most distinctive supernatural figure. In the Te'ezaza Sanbat she is a hypostasis created before the world, a celestial being ranked above the angels, who crown and glorify her before the divine throne. Her chief office is intercession: she petitions God on behalf of those who observe the Sabbath and testifies against those who profane it. At the festival of Ləngälä Sanbat, the seventh Sabbath after Passover, Sanbat is said to rise from her throne and visit the earth, an occasion of great rejoicing that coincides with the Feast of Weeks. Wolf Leslau observed that the Falasha attach to the personified Sabbath much of the devotion that their Christian neighbours direct toward the Virgin. Sources differ on Sanbat's character: the dominant strand, following Leslau, treats her as a female hypostasis and 'daughter of the Lord,' while other formulations style the Sabbath the 'Son of God' who descends from a heavenly throne.