Lilith - Demon and Adam's first wife

Very interesting story of Adam's supposed first wife Lilith, who rebelled against her husband.

Lilith - in Jewish folklore, a ghostly woman dangerous to pregnant women and infants in the first weeks of their lives[4][5]; believed to be the first wife of the biblical Adam, most likely derived from Mesopotamian tradition. wikipedia

 

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Niektórzy też interpretują ustęp Księgi Rodzaju 1,27 – “I stworzył Bóg człowieka na wyobrażenie swoje: na wyobrażenie Boże stworzył go: mężczyznę i białogłowę stworzył je” – jako że Ewa została dopiero stworzona z żebra Adama, miał on żonę przed Ewą i to mogłaby być Lilith. Ta rozbieżność wyjaśniana jest często niedbałym połączeniem dwóch biblijnych opisów kosmogonicznych: Rdz 1,26 i 2,7.

The name Lilith also appears in the Qumran Manuscripts - in passages based on Isaiah and in various places in the Talmud and Zohar.

The first clear description of Lilith as Adam's wife is contained in the anonymous medieval work The Alphabet of Ben-Syrach, named after the author of the Wisdom of Sirach, one of the deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament. According to the text, she was created at about the same time as Adam - but not from a rib. She disagreed with her servile role (probably during sexual intercourse) and abandoned her husband. Leaving Paradise, she gave birth to Lilins (Jains in the Islamic version) conceived with Adam, who also aborted children. Adam begged God to bring Lilith back. Three angels, Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof, were sent after her. They threatened to kill a hundredth of Lilith's children each day until she returned to Paradise. Lilith responded by promising to sacrifice the descendants of Adam and Eve (only those who wear the amulet with the names of the three angels will be saved). She never returned to Paradise. She ascended to Hell, where she became the mistress of the highest Satan in the Hell hierarchy.

The story of the biblical Lilith is similar to a Mesopotamian myth in which a demon killed children. Wearing amulets with the names of the three angels became a common custom to protect children in medieval Jewish tradition.

This legend was mistakenly added to an English-language rabbinic book - the author considered every ancient work read in the Jewish community to be a rabbinic work. However - despite popular belief - The Alphabet of Ben-Syrach is not a religious source. Rather, it is a collection of satirical (even perverse) stories about characters from the Bible and Talmud. Modern historians are unsure of the original intent of the work, but it may simply have been a collection of anti-Christian stories or a satire on Judaism.

Some midrash say that the serpent who tempted Eve to taste the forbidden fruit was actually Lilith, not Satan himself. wikipedia