Can anyone tell me the full story of Lillith the first woman?

Question

And please no short answers about how she wasn't because the bible doesn't expressly say that. Is her full story in the Talmud?

Answer 1

I Think her full story is in the Talmud.  I know Lilith is shown in Jewish mythology as the first woman and that she was too headstrong for Adam, so God banished her from the Garden and created Eve in her place.  But I am not sure of all the details.  I am sure you can find out more in Wikipedia.

Answer 2

She was the daughter of the Nefilim the peoples from the rocket ships.

Answer 3

She liked to be on top.

Answer 4

Enter here.

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia...

Answer 5

Lilith's full story is in The Alphabet of Ben-Sira.

It reads as follows;

After God created Adam, who was alone, He said, 'It is not good for man to be alone.' He then created a woman for Adam, from the earth, as He had created Adam himself, and called her Lilith. Adam and Lilith immediately began to fight. She said, 'I will not lie below,' and he said, 'I will not lie beneath you, but only on top. For you are fit only to be in the bottom position, while I am to be the superior one.' Lilith responded, 'We are equal to each other inasmuch as we were both created from the earth.' But they would not listen to one another. When Lilith saw this, she pronounced the Ineffable Name and flew away into the air.

Adam stood in prayer before his Creator: 'Sovereign of the universe!' he said, 'the woman you gave me has run away.' At once, the Holy One, blessed be He, sent these three angels Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, to bring her back.

Said the Holy One to Adam, 'If she agrees to come back, what is made is good. If not, she must permit one hundred of her children to die every day.' The angels left God and pursued Lilith, whom they overtook in the midst of the sea, in the mighty waters wherein the Egyptians were destined to drown. They told her God's word, but she did not wish to return. The angels said, 'We shall drown you in the sea.’

'Leave me!' she said. 'I was created only to cause sickness to infants. If the infant is male, I have dominion over him for eight days after his birth, and if female, for twenty days.’

When the angels heard Lilith's words, they insisted she go back. But she swore to them by the name of the living and eternal God: 'Whenever I see you or your names or your forms in an amulet, I will have no power over that infant.' She also agreed to have one hundred of her children die every day. Accordingly, every day one hundred demons perish, and for the same reason, we write the angels' names on the amulets of young children. When Lilith sees their names, she remembers her oath, and the child recovers.

Answer 6

Alot of Jewish mythology, and it is mythology, is set down (like the Greek's explanation of how the hyacinth came into being) to explain how the world got to the point that it did. Since mythologies always serve the culture from which they emerge (think of a dog telling a story to a bunch of cats and saying how God really is a dog and gave them dominion to rule over all the little things below them) and since the Jewish culture was predominantly patriarchal and insular, they had to come up with a myth to explain the transition between matriarchal beliefs and patriarchal beliefs. That is why Adam's first wife refuses to lie in a position inferior to him (they are both hard-headed and obstinate in the story, so I doubt Adam was the only one to suggest they were the superior one.) The transition from Lilith to Eve was suggestive of the transition from a matriarchal culture (where men are subservient) to a patriarchal one (where females are subservient.) Since such cultures could not accept a 'lower' position after being in power so long, they were 'demonized', an angel falling into blackness, yet another metaphor.

Lilith and Eve are really two sides of the same woman, and their relationship to Adam is meant to reflect the changing nature of male-female relationships, in the broader context of the culture at large, as interpreted in Jewish mythology.

Answer 7

She refused Adam s*x in the missionary position. God then banished her, and gave Adam a submissive and sexually c**p wife instead.

Lilith was hot stuff. Adam just wasn't man enough.