What do you know about the Hebrew legend of Lilith?

Answer 1

Yes, in the Jewish religion she is created with Adam.

In the Babylonian tradition, there is a triad of demons with whom Lilith is associated. The male is called Lilu, and the two females are Lilitu, a frigid, barren, & husbandless demon who roamed the night searching for men to seduce or drink their blood, and Ardat Lili, the 'maid of desolation.'

Lilith is thought be the demon of waste places who originally lived in the garden of the Sumerian goddess, Innana, queen of heaven. She is mentioned only briefly in the Hebrew Bible in Isaiah 34:14.

In Jewish traditions, Lilith was created with Adam from the dust of the earth, & became his first wife. She was stubborn, though, & refused to be subservient to her husband. Instead of becoming Adam's servant, she left him & was turned out of Paradise. However, before God created Eve, He sent 3 angels to try to convince Lilith to return to Adam. She refused, & God cursed her by sentencing 100 of her offspring to die each day. After her expulsion from Paradise, however, she slept once more with Adam, & bore the Shedim, Lilin, & Rauchin.

Later, in Kabbalistic circles, Lilith became the mistress of Sammael.

It is mistakenly thought that Lilith's name was derived from the Hebrew word lailah, which means 'night.' This was probably derived from the similarity of the two words, and the idea that Lilith was mostly active at night.

Answer 2

I have done a lot of research on this topic, actually. It is quite apparent that Lilith was some sort of female Deity that was demonized by the patriarchy. For my part, I think she may have been originally connected with childbirth in some way, like the Greek Hecate, (a Goddess associated with both witchcraft and childbirth) hence the association with babies. It is also possible the name "Lilith" is a corruption of the name of the Greek goddess of childbirth "Eileithia". It is said Lilith "judges the children of Adam" which may have also been corrupted into "child killer". In any case the legends surrounding her are contradictory (one minute she's leaving the garden of Eden on her own, the next she's kicked out; another time the angels chase after her to bring her back to Adam, the next they are charged with keeping her away. Since there is no real consistency to the legend, (and tellingly, it is part of the heavily patriarchal tradition of orthodox Judaism, a religion notoriously female-negative), this shows that it is most likely the patriarchy who perpetrated the "evil demoness" version of the Lilith myth in order that women should remain subservient and have no strong, independent role models to give them "ideas" and get them acting all "uppity". I recommend Barbara Koltuv-Black's book "The Book of Lilith".

Answer 3

Her original name is Lily but when she refused to take adams orders and be on the bottom, god kicked her out of Eden, than made Eve. Since then she was seen as a demon by not giving into the will of men. She is also said to tempt men of all ages to do bad things.

The really old and more stricker Roman Catholic bible has the story of Lilith.

Answer 4

Lilith is the mythological first wife of Adam. She, like Adam, was created
by God "from the dust of the earth. . . in the image of God He created them, male and female He created them" (Gen. 1:27) being the first reference to human life in the Bible. It would seem that Eve came later,fashioned from a rib taken from Adam while he slept : ". . . this is to be called woman, for this was taken from Man". (Gen. 2:24) This strange anomaly can only be explained by assuming that there was a female human before Eve. Since only Eve is subsequently present in the Garden of Eden, her predecessor must have departed before Eve's arrival on the scene. One can only assume that Lilith's near total absence (aside from oblique references to "screech owls") from the Judeo/Christian Bible is a matter of prejudice on the part of the male patriarchal authors.

Semitic legend describes Lilith as having a "base" nature and a taste for
biting Adam and drinking his blood. She had refused to submit to Adam's
authority and in a fit of pique, she uttered the ineffable name of God and flew up into the air, only to only to be cast down by God into the desert wastes where she took up
residence. (The only mention of Lilith in the standard Christian Bible is in Isaiah, where a passing reference is made about her living in the desert.) Lilith is described as either a winged serpent or a screech owl, who murders infants (it would appear from the perspective of modern medicine that infants who succumbed to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome would have been thought to have been victims of Lilith), and who torments men at night who sleep alone.

Answer 5

I have a statuette of Lilith. My understanding is that when God created Adam, he created Lilith. They were to be equal in all ways. Adam didn't like that. He wanted a wife he could control. He complained to God, and God created Eve, to be his wife. Eve was to take orders from Adam.
I keep my statuette of Lilith out for all to see, and for people to question me about her. I like the idea that God created her equal to Adam. I laugh when I realize that Adam, given the only woman in the entire world............complained about her, because she was equal to him. I prefer God's first idea.

Answer 6

Lilith is a Sumerian/Babylonian demon-goddess, who is perhaps better known for Her role in Hebrew legend. Called "The Dark Maid" or "Maiden of Desolation", Lilith is associated with owls and is a creature of the night. She is depicted on a Babylonian clay plaque from 2000-1600BCE as beautiful winged woman with bird's feet and claws.

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Answer 7

She was supposed to be the first wife of Adam.

Answer 8

She was the first wife of Adam.