{"id":331,"date":"2017-11-14T01:53:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T01:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress_bw2\/5-4-a-summary-of-lilith-in-the-zohar\/"},"modified":"2017-12-10T02:55:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T02:55:20","slug":"5-4-a-summary-of-lilith-in-the-zohar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/the-case-for-lilith\/lilith-in-the-zohar\/5-4-a-summary-of-lilith-in-the-zohar\/","title":{"rendered":"5.4) A Summary of Lilith in the Zohar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following is a brief summary of what the Zohar has to say about Lilith.\u00a0 Passage reference conventions are according to an online version of the Zohar that may be found at https:\/\/www.kabbalah.com.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prologue<\/strong>: Passage 251\n<ul>\n<li>Lilith is a female demon who pursues and kills the \u201cwicked spirits\u201d of children spawned by defiling sexual acts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beresheet A<\/strong>: Passages 98-102, 268, 393, 408, 416, 417, 421\n<ul>\n<li>Lilith is described as a klipah (\u201cshell\u201d) emerging from a common origin with Adam\u2019s klipah (98). While Adam\u2019s klipah concealed the perfect light of Jehovah, Lilith\u2019s klipah concealed the defective light of Lucifer.\u00a0 Lilith is completed before Adam.\u00a0 After awakening, she ascends and attempts to have intercourse with the angels, but when Adam is finished, she descends to the earth to have intercourse with him.\u00a0 However, she sees Eve attached to Adam\u2019s side and flees from him, attempting to have sex with the angels once more (99).\u00a0 God then dispatches her to the depths of the sea, where she dwelt until Adam and his wife sinned.\u00a0 She rules over all infants who deserve to be punished because of the sins of their fathers.\u00a0 She dwells at the gates of the Garden of Eden by the flaming sword, because she originated from the side of that flame (100).<\/li>\n<li>Adam had a female counterpart named Lilith before Eve existed, and Lilith conceived from Adam (416). Lilith was not to be trusted and was not suitable for Adam (417).\u00a0 The rib that remained to Adam symbolized Lilith, who stayed with him (416).\u00a0 Lilith is the mother of the mixed multitude, and her spirit is present in the nakedness left when God\u2019s holy covering spirit is departed due to defiling sexual acts (393).\u00a0 Lilith was created to bring cursing to the world (393).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beresheet B<\/strong>: Passages 354, 355\n<ul>\n<li>Naamah, sister of Tubal Cain, was a mother of demons who was linked with Lilith. Both killed children.\u00a0 Lilith empowered Naamah.\u00a0 Demons die like humans, but Lilith and Naamah possess some unique power that they continue to live on the earth until some future date when God shall cleanse them from the earth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Vayetze<\/strong>: Passage 23\n<ul>\n<li>Samael and Lilith are intimately linked, male and female together like one being.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vayishlach<\/strong>: Passages 76, 79\n<ul>\n<li>The Spirit of Defilement comes from the corrupt Serpent, which is Lilith.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mishpatim<\/strong>: Passages 43, 319, 320, 377, 452\n<ul>\n<li>The souls of young children, who suckle on their mothers&#8217; strength, are given over to the power of Lilith. Lilith is compared to the bondwoman Hagar and her son, whom Sarah cast out of the household for idolatry.\u00a0 The bondwoman is equated to idolatry.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Verse 319: Lilith is the driving spirit causing the curses of the Sotah\u2019s bitter water trial. She and the voice of the serpent are responsible for the mystical insemination of seed, and it is the spirit of Lilith that slays the defiled mystical seed.\u00a0 However, Lilith is overcome by the power of the innocent woman\u2019s promised seed.\u00a0 There are two spirits of Lilith in the trial, Sinful Lilith and Evil Lilith.\u00a0 Sinful Lilith is associated with the woman\u2019s first drinking.\u00a0 Evil Lilith comes if the woman is defiled and drinks again.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trumah<\/strong>: Passage 682\n<ul>\n<li>Lilith is called the female of Samael.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Safra Det&#8217;zniuta<\/strong>: Passage 38\n<ul>\n<li>On creation day 5, Jehovah said let the waters swarm with every \u201cliving creature that moves.\u201d This means everything swarmed at the same time, allowing the \u201cgood waters\u201d of Jehovah to intermix with the \u201cevil waters\u201d of Samael.\u00a0 This allowed both good and evil creatures to come to exist at the same time.\u00a0 It was likewise with Lilith\u2019s creation.\u00a0 The perfect light of Jehovah intermixed with Samael\u2019s defective light.\u00a0 \u201cThe light of one spread into the other.\u201d\u00a0 Adam became a good living creature and Lilith became an evil-living creature.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tetzaveh<\/strong>: Passage 120\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>Whoever has not removed filth from his soul on Yom Kippur, his prayer ascends on that day and sinks into a place that is called \u201cmud\u201d and \u201cclay\u201d, which are Samael and Lilith. This provides a clear link to Lilith and Yom Kippur.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><strong>Pekudei<\/strong>: Passages 207, 454, 920<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Samael is portrayed as riding his evil serpent (Lilith) to bring down Adam. The serpent is compared to a deceitful harlot.\u00a0 Lucifer gives power to Lilith, and she practices the art deception in the world.\u00a0 They cannot rule the one without the other (454).\u00a0 Passage 207 interprets Ge 2:23 as I do, namely that Adam declares Eve is the result of a second attempt to make a helpmate for him.\u00a0 Vanity in a man empowers Lilith to ensnare him (920).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vayikra<\/strong>: Passages 316, 319, 320, 321, 323\n<ul>\n<li>Lilith was created just before Adam, when one thousand spirits attempted to enter Adam, but were rebuked by God. A husband and wife must take special precautions during sex to protect themselves from Lilith.\u00a0 A wife should not suckle her child and have intercourse near the same location.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acharei Mot<\/strong>: Passages 362, 363, 364, 365, 366\n<ul>\n<li>Male demon seed of Naamah appears to women in their dreams and inseminates them with seed. These seed then proceed to Lilith, whom rears them.\u00a0 If a person is not holy, but draws a spirit of defilement, then Lilith comes and plays with the child. \u00a0If she kills him, she clings to the child\u2019s spirit and never lets go.\u00a0 However, if there is no defilement, Lilith can still come and slay the child, but its spirit is taken away by three holy spirits who take him to God.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Emor<\/strong>: Passage 39\n<ul>\n<li>Israel must send their goat sacrifice to Jehovah on Yom Kippur by an unblemished man. This is in contrast to the goat to Azazel, which is sent by a blemished man.\u00a0 This blemished man is compared to a major fault of heathen families.\u00a0 \u201cIn this way most heathen households are defective in respect to their wife, who is a ruin, Lilith, blemished, etc.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Naso<\/strong>: Passage 92\n<ul>\n<li>The unclean mix multitudes of the world are called the children of \u201cLilith, who is a woman in menstruation, a maidservant, a gentile woman and a prostitute.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pinchas<\/strong>: Passages 168, 270, 327, 331, 353, 362, 364, 375, 376, 408, 409, 410, 424\n<ul>\n<li>Passage 327: Lilith is a wicked bondwoman that is insolent, has no humility and no modesty, and she is the mother of a mixed multitude. Solomon refers to her when he said, \u201cA virtuous woman is a diadem to her husband, but she that acts shamefully is as rottenness in his bones\u201d (Mishlei 12:4). \u00a0Furthermore, Lilith has neither humility nor modesty before God. \u00a0Her children are similar, being a mixed multitude.\u00a0 In the future God will remove her and her children from the world, for they are bastards, born of the nine attributes, as described by the sages.\u00a0 The nine attributes for which children are considered bastards by the Torah are: 1) A wife raped by her husband; 2) A wife hated; 3) A woman menstruating at the time of intercourse; 4) A wife whose husband at the time of intercourse thought she was someone else or his other wife; 5) A wife who is rebellious (at the time of intercourse); 6) A husband drunk at the time of intercourse; 7) Having intercourse with a wife divorced in her heart; 8) A wife who is insolent; 9) A wife who had relations immediately prior to her marriage.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Passage 331: Lilith is a wicked bondwoman whose children \u201care as a serpent before whom is the whole land, as it is written: \u2018and dust shall be the serpent&#8217;s food\u2019\u201d (Yeshayah 65:25). He fears eating the dust until he is full, for he is afraid that there will not be enough for him.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Passage 353: Satan and his female Lilith are concerned about the sanctity of Jehovah\u2019s name.<\/li>\n<li>Passages 362-364: Samael is compared to the liver and Lilith to the appendix, which emerges from the liver.\u00a0 This is because from the liver emerges the gall, which is the sword of the Angel of Death, from which come bitter drops to kill human beings. \u00a0It is written: &#8220;Her end is bitter (Heb. marah, also meaning &#8216;gall&#8217;) as wormwood&#8221; (Mishlei 5:4).\u00a0 Lilith is called a woman of harlotry, who comes out and emerges from Samael to mislead the world and denounce them.\u00a0 She leaves the male to practice prostitution. \u00a0After making her adulterous union, she rises above him. She has &#8220;a harlot&#8217;s forehead&#8221; (Yirmeyah 3:3) and subdues her husband, who is Samael, with the anger of the gall, being a quarrelsome and anger-prone wife who rules over her male. \u00a0Lilith is also compared to the spleen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ki Tetze<\/strong>: Passages 39, 113, 123\n<ul>\n<li>Samael and his female Lilith were servants to God, but later made themselves into deities. God will remove them out of the world and wipe them away (39).\u00a0 Lilith is called filthy refuse, because she is excrement mixed with different types of filth and vermin into which dead dogs (the uncircumcised) are buried. \u00a0She is a grave for idolatry.\u00a0 She is the reason the dead dogs (the uncircumcised) and vermin become a bad smell.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is a brief summary of what the Zohar has to say about Lilith.\u00a0 Passage reference conventions are according to an online version of the Zohar that may be found at https:\/\/www.kabbalah.com. Prologue: Passage 251 Lilith is a female demon who pursues and kills the \u201cwicked spirits\u201d of children spawned by defiling sexual acts. 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