Two main roles are attributed to this demoness: strangling young children in their sleep, and seducing men Lilith becomes pregnant with this wasted sperm, giving birth to demonic stepchildren. 47). The ancient Greeks knew these dangerous sorceresses by the name of lamiae, and they believed that they devoured children, or sucked away all their blood till they died. In later periods paint-ed amulets were prepared, and these in time were replaced by prints. In the text an amulet is inscribed with the names of three angels (Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof) and placed around the neck of newborn boys in order to protect them from the lilin until their circumcision. God at once sent the angels Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof to fetch Lilith back. The reading of scholars and translators is often guided by a decision about the complete list of eight creatures as a whole. [24] According to a new source from late antiquity, Lilith appears in a Mandaean magic story where she is considered to represent the branches of a tree with other demonic figures that form other parts of the tree, though this may also include multiple "Liliths". This light became hidden and the Holiness became surrounded by a husk of evil. Like other manuscripts of its kind, it draws a link between observance of the laws handed down to Moses at Mount Sinai and the health of the individual and the community. The 3 Angels names are Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof. In memory of Adam and Eve, excluding Lilith, a protective amulet against demons and harmful forces, from the exhibition book Back to the Shtetl An-Sky and the Jewish Ethnographic Expedition, The Israel Museum, 1994, How was this sense of equality manifested? Eli Yassif, who studied the medieval stories of ben Sirah (or ben Sirach), claimed that the custom of writing amulets with the names of the angels dates back even earlier than the 8th century, its story intended to explain an existing custom. [40][41], et occurrent daemonia onocentauris et pilosus clamabit alter ad alterum ibi cubavit lamia et invenit sibi requiem. Although in the medieval Hebrew literature and folklore, especially that reflected on the protective amulets of various kinds, Chavvah ha-Rishonah was identified with Lilith, one should remain careful in transposing this equation to the Late Antiquity.[49]. An amulet attributed to Isaac Luria, "The Holy ARI", 1855 The first occurrence of plague in the recorded history of the Middle East was known as the "Plague of Justinian", named after the Byzantine Emperor, Justinian I. Enter your e-mail below to receive the most interesting, quality content about the treasures preserved in the National Library! 34:14 "And shall-meet wildcats[35] with jackals The names of three angels, potent against Lilith, are mentioned - Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof - and those three names are inscribed in this print, in abbreviated forms: Snvi, Snsnvi, Smnglf. 'Return to Adam without delay,' the angels said, `or we will drown you!' Then a cloud descended and God commanded the earth to produce a living soul. A few lines in Yiddish are followed by the dialogue between the prophet Elijah and Lilith when he met her with her host of demons to kill the mother and take her new-born child ('to drink her blood, suck her bones and eat her flesh'). Sansenoy, and Semange- lof on amulets hung around the necks of new-born babes: when Lilith sees the names, she remembers her oath and leaves the child . A birthing amulet featuring an illustration of Adam and Eve. Amsterdam, circa 1700. William F. Albright, Theodor H. Gaster,[32] and others, accepted the amulets as a pre-Jewish source which shows that the name Lilith already existed in the 7th century BC but Torczyner (1947) identified the amulets as a later Jewish source.[33]. [31], The Arslan Tash amulets are limestone plaques discovered in 1933 at Arslan Tash, the authenticity of which is disputed. Though the names are not completely identical, the same whispering, threatening motif can be heard here as well. Spelled as "Snvi, Snsvi, and Smnglof". ", "Leave me!' Her beauty's one boast is her dangerous hair. Isa 34:14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. The angels said, "We shall drown you in the sea. An amulet from the Bill Gross Collection, the National Librarys Time Travel Project. Apples grow, too, in my garden. the goat he-calls his- fellowlilit (lilith) she-rests and she-finds rest[d] Although the image of Lilith of the Alphabet of Ben Sira is unprecedented, some elements in her portrayal can be traced back to the talmudic and midrashic traditions that arose around Eve. Commentators and interpreters often envision the figure of Lilith as a dangerous demon of the night, who is sexually wanton, and who steals babies in the darkness. (eds. Hutter, Manfred (1999) "Lilith", in K. van der Toorn et al. [84] Lamia had a vicious sexual appetite that matched her cannibalistic appetite for children. Who Are You, Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof? Found in the wild waters The message was delivered She declined their offer Thus refused to return. These talismans invoke the names of the angels Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, or sometimes the prophet Elijah, in order to protect young children from the grasp of Lilith. Alphabet of Ben Sirah, Question #5 (23ab). Thy spell through him, and left his straight neck bent [67], The first medieval source to depict Adam and Lilith in full was the Midrash A.B.K.I.R. In the pashkevil broadsides which are popular in ultra-orthodox Jewish communities, the word is often used to describe various ills which have spread throughout modern Israeli society, whether they be of a biological, theological or moral nature. Whether this particular tradition is older is not known. (16) Look in the book of the LORD and read: No one of these shall be lacking, For the mouth of the LORD has ordered it, and His spirit shall gather them there. I,74.1. However, this view is challenged by some modern research such as by Judit M. Blair (2009) who considers that the context indicates unclean animals. Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof (sometimes written Semangelof, or Snvi, Snsnvi and Smnglof) are three guarding angels in Jewish mythology. Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof Besides for the angels, the four rivers that come out of the Garden of Eden mention in the biblical account in Genesis is also used in our amulet. It would become evident that the child was not fathered by the husband, and the child would be looked down on. Faust: [dancing with the young witch] 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. They found her beside the Red Sea, a region abounding in lascivious demons, to whom she bore 'lilim' at the rate of more than one hundred a day. Is he not found, O Lilith, whom shed scent Lilith appears as a succubus in Aleister Crowley's De Arte Magica. Hebrew: , -, - ; - , , u-pagu iyyim et-iyyim, w-sair al-rhu yiqra; ak-am hirgia lilit, u-maa lah manoa. Beware of her. Another interesting text can be found in a manuscript which is part of the Bill Gross Collection and which received the rather generic title, Prayers Against the Plague. amulet and asked "Who are these?" Ben Sira answered, "The angels who are in charge of medicine: Snvi, Snsvi, and Smnglof." [In English: Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof.] The repetition of these sounds (sen-san-sen-sem) enhances the whip-like, whispering, threatening effect. Hormin who is mentioned here as the son of Lilith is most probably a result of a scribal error of the word "Hormiz" attested in some of the Talmudic manuscripts. God at once sent the angels Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof to fetch Lilith back. The charm in fact consists of two different amulets joined together, one on top and one below. She also agreed to have one hundred of her children die every day. "[93], The depiction of Lilith in Romanticism continues to be popular among Wiccans and in other modern Occultism. First and foremost, the very introduction of Lilith to the creation story rests on the rabbinic myth, prompted by the two separate creation accounts in Genesis 1:12:25, that there were two original women. Others base their reverence for her on her history as a succubus and praise her as a sex goddess. Lilith and Faust engage in a short dialogue, where Lilith recounts the days spent in Eden. Throughout the 16th century, plague spread across different parts of the Middle East. The three angels cast her away from heaven, and are now protecting children and mothers. No Children Allowed: Introducing Lilith, the Jewish Vampire Queen. [b] In Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld, a huluppu tree grows in Inanna's garden in Uruk, whose wood she plans to use to build a new throne. We found the amulet below in a copy of the book Shaar HaYichudim (The Gate of Unifications) by the famous Safed Kabbalist Hayyim ben Joseph Vital. The main difference here relates to the type of pestilence which was spreading across the country, with the text mentioning an outbreak of cholera morbus ( ) and expressing the hope that no harm will befall us, nor will a plague draw near to our tent. The only true symbolic references ever used for Senoy , Sansenoy, and Semangelof were their names as insribed in bed posts, amulets, doorways. Samael Aun Weor in The Pistis Sophia Unveiled writes that homosexuals are the "henchmen of Lilith". By that point, she had already slept with Samael, chief among the demons, and vowed that she would not harm the human offspring of Adam and Eve if they wrote her name on a protective amulet during childbirth. Lo! ), Ebeling, Erich; Meissner, Bruno; Edzard, Dietz Otto. (CD-ROM). Numbers Rabbah, in: Judaic Classics Library, Davka Corporation, 1999. -------------------------------- They found her at the Red Sea, where she was giving birth daily to numerous demons. Many have connected it to Lolita, but Nabokov adamantly denies this: "Intelligent readers will abstain from examining this impersonal fantasy for any links with my later fiction. During this time "Pizna", either an alternate name for Lilith or a daughter of hers, desires his beauty and seduces him against his will. Since the end of the Talmudic period, Samael has often been portrayed as the source of all evil; his agents charged with defeating the cause of good and righteousness. The poem and the picture appeared together alongside Rossetti's painting Sibylla Palmifera and the sonnet Soul's Beauty. (15) There the hoot owl shall nest and lay eggs, hatch them out and gather them in her shadow; There shall the kites assemble, none shall be missing its mate. [28], Kramer's translation of the Gilgamesh fragment was used by Henri Frankfort (1937)[29] and Emil Kraeling (1937) to support identification of a woman with wings and bird-feet in the disputed Burney Relief as related to Lilith. Mller-Kessler, C. (2002) "A Charm against Demons of Time", in C. Wunsch (ed. Adam was left lying as a body without a soul. (14) Wildcats shall meet with desert beasts, satyrs shall call to one another; There shall the Lilith repose, and find for herself a place to rest. [7], The Septuagint translates both the reference to Lilith and the word for jackals or "wild beasts of the island" within the same verse into Greek as onokentauros, apparently assuming them as referring to the same creatures and omitting "wildcats/wild beasts of the desert" (so, instead of the wildcats or desert beasts meeting with the jackals or island beasts, the goat or "satyr" crying "to his fellow" and lilith or "screech owl" resting "there", it is the goat or "satyr", translated as daimonia "demons", and the jackals or island beasts "onocentaurs" meeting with each other and crying "one to the other" and the latter resting there in the translation). Stephen Skinner's 1671 Etymologicon Lingu Anglican], which asserts that the word lullaby originates from Lillu abi abi, a Hebrew incantation meaning "Lilith begone" recited by Jewish mothers over an infant's cradle. For instance, Isaiah, describing the condition to which Babylon was to be reduced after her ruin, says that she shall become the abode of satyrs, lamiae, and strigae (in Hebrew, lilith). the first Adam). Judging by the style of script, as well as the name of the youth to whom the manuscript was dedicated Yosef Tzemach Gabriel Donati which appears on the last page, it is likely that the manuscript was inscribed in Italy during the 18th or 19th century. The angels very names Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof are seen as safeguards against Liliths actions. In some Jewish folklore, such as the satirical Alphabet of Sirach (c.7001000 AD), Lilith appears as Adam's first wife, who was created at the same time and from the same clay as Adam. MacDonald employed the character of Lilith in service to a spiritual drama about sin and redemption, in which Lilith finds a hard-won salvation. It seems these tales were known even before they appeared in the stories of ben Sirah. [21] The ki-sikil-lil-la-ke is associated with a serpent and a zu bird. Frequently amulets were place in the four corners and throughout the bedchamber. They found her beside the Red Sea, a region abounding in lascivious demons. The figures of Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof appear here from right to left The quest for a proven, functioning magical amulet, one whose supernatural powers can be trusted with certainty, has led buyers to prefer amulets ordained with fixed and familiar mystic formulas. She doesn't soon let go of them again. Source: Angels and Demons: Jewish Magic Through the Ages, edited by Filip Vukosavovitch. He then created a woman for Adam, from the earth, as He had created Adam himself, and called her Lilith. Leland further notes that Herodias is a name that comes from west Asia, where it denoted an early form of Lilith. I own that these terms [lamiae and strigae] are found in the versions of Holy Scripture. Lilith's earliest appearance in the literature of the Romantic period (17891832) was in Goethe's 1808 work Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy. (2007), Chilton, Bruce; Bock, Darrell and Gurtner, Daniel M. (2010). Such stories are commonly found among Jewish folklore.[64]. [101] A different approach to a Satanic Lilith holds that she was once a fertility and agricultural goddess. [61] The concept of Eve having a predecessor is not exclusive to the Alphabet, and is not a new concept, as it can be found in Genesis Rabbah. It is of Middle Eastern origin, made in the early or mid-20th century. Tractate Niddah in the Mishnah is the only tractate from the Order of Tohorot which has Talmud on it. In contrast, some scholars, such as Lowell K. Handy, hold the view that though Lilith derives from Mesopotamian demonology, evidence of the Hebrew Lilith being present in the sources frequently cited - the Sumerian Gilgamesh fragment and the Sumerian incantation from Arshlan-Tash being two - is scant, if present at all. He is considered to be the wicked Esaus demonic master, and in Talmudic literature most of his evil deeds involve attempts to undermine the righteous. The names of the angels Senoy, Sansenoy and Samengelof also appear, as do the names Lilith and Satan. According to myths, Lilith, the female demon, is looking to snatch and kill sleeping babies as a revenge on Adam. [22][23] Identification of the ki-sikil-lil-la-ke as Lilith is stated in the Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (1999). Despite the threat from the three angels that if she didn't return to Adam one hundred of her sons would die every day, she refused, claiming that she was created expressly to harm newborn infants. At once, the Holy One, blessed be He, sent these three angels Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, to bring her back. She said, "I will not lie below," and he said, "I will not lie beneath you, but only on top. Sent after her were three angels Senoy, Sansenoy, Semangelof. Joseph M. Baumgarten (1991) identified the unnamed woman of The Seductress (4Q184) as related to the female demon. How overjoyed I am to think, sir, When Lilith sees their names, she remembers her oath, and the child recovers. [45][46] However, John J. Collins[47] regards this identification as "intriguing" but that it is "safe to say" that (4Q184) is based on the strange woman of Proverbs 2, 5, 7, 9: Her house sinks down to death, Despite the threat from the three angels that if she didn't return to Adam one hundred of her sons would die every day, she refused, claiming that she was created expressly to harm newborn infants. In the Akkadian language of Assyria and Babylonia, the terms lili and lltu mean spirits. She has different conflicting origins and is described as having a human upper body from the waist up and a serpentine body from the waist down. A plague of non-kosher meat, from the British Mandate period. The Victorian poet Robert Browning re-envisioned Lilith in his poem "Adam, Lilith, and Eve". Senoy, Sansenoy, Semangelof. (13) Her castles shall be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. 19. However, they are defeated by Methuselah, who slays thousands of them with a holy sword and forces Agrimas to give him the names of the rest, after which he casts them away to the sea and the mountains.[68]. Lilith responded, "We are equal to each other inasmuch as we were both created from the earth." This aspect of God was negative and punitive, as well as one of his ten attributes (Sefirot), at its lowest manifestation has an affinity with the realm of evil and it is out of this that Lilith merged with Samael. He then separates from holy Eve, sleeps alone, and fasts for 130 years. The female side was Lilith, whereupon she flew to the Cities of the Sea and attacked humankind. [52], The correctly worded incantation bowl was capable of warding off Lilith or Lilit from the household. Some bowls are written in a false script which has no meaning. (The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,) In 1881, the Lilith sonnet was renamed "Body's Beauty" in order to contrast it and Soul's Beauty. Many early occult writers that contributed to modern day Wicca expressed special reverence for Lilith. Adam complained to God: 'I have been deserted by my helpmeet' God at once sent the angels Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof to fetch Lilith back. And all this ruination came about because Adam the first man coupled with Eve while she was in her menstrual impurity this is the filth and the impure seed of the Serpent who mounted Eve before Adam mounted her. It made its way to the Land of Israel from Egypt around 541-542 AD. An amulet for women after childbirth, The National Librarys Amulet Collection, Jewish Mysticism, Joseph Dan, Jerusalem : J. Aronson, 1999, Some sources of Jewish-Arabic demonology, Gershom Scholem, JJS, Vol. An amulet with the names of the angels, and Adam and Eve, excluding Lilith. Is This What the First Temple Looked Like? For Evil Lilith, when she saw the greatness of his corruption, became strong in her husks, and came to Adam against his will, and became hot from him and bore him many demons and spirits and Lilin. This idea was further attested by Doreen Valiente, who cited her as a presiding goddess of the Craft: "the personification of erotic dreams, the suppressed desire for delights". The three angels' names, Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof, were written on the entrance door. His slave, soul, body, and all! Lilith does not occur in the Mishnah. [16], The Sumerian female demons lili have no etymological relation to Akkadian lilu, "evening". When the angels heard Lilith's words, they insisted she go back. (Babylonian Talmud, tractate Bava Bathra 73a-b). His main partner is his wife, Lilith. [5] Many traditional rabbinic authorities, including Maimonides and Menachem Meiri, reject the existence of Lilith. . [17], Archibald Sayce (1882)[18][pageneeded] considered that Hebrew lilit (or lilith) and the earlier Akkadian lltu are derived from Proto-Semitic. And just as the Dragon that is in the sea (Isa. They wouldn't force her to come back to Adam under one condition. Since the most common Jewish amulets known to us are those designed to protect women giving birth, we can safely assume that the three angels who appear on these types of charms are among the most common figures associated with the Hebrew amulet. And the Serpent seduced Holy Eve, and enough said for him who understands. The two were placed sequentially in The House of Life collection (sonnets number 77 and 78).[89]. [65] Her creation is described in many alternative versions. DouayRheims Bible (1582/1610) also preserves the Latin rendering lamia: Isa 34:14 And demons and monsters shall meet, and the hairy ones shall cry out one to another, there hath the lamia lain down, and found rest for herself. Lilith.Faust: [27], A connection between the Gilgamesh ki-sikil-lil-la-ke and the Jewish Lilith was rejected on textual grounds by Sergio Ribichini (1978). The lamiae, the strigae, the sorcerers whom they accused of sucking the blood of living people, and of thus causing their death, the magicians who were said to cause the death of new-born children by charms and malignant spells, are nothing less than what we understand by the name of vampires; even were it to be owned that these lamiae and strigae have really existed, which we do not believe can ever be well proved. Ever since the days of Eden Deciphering Jewish Manuscripts . The angels were able, however, to extract a vow that Lilith would not harm the offspring of Adam and his second wife, Eve. Chavvah ha-Rishonah, analogically to the phrase Adam ha-Rishon, i.e. With her major characteristics having been well developed by the end of the Talmudic period, after six centuries had elapsed between the Aramaic incantation texts that mention Lilith and the early Spanish Kabbalistic writings in the 13th century, she reappears, and her life history becomes known in greater mythological detail. This is the earliest Jewish amulet to appear in print. (Yalqut Reubeni, Zohar 1:34b, 3:19[79]), Charles Richardson's dictionary portion of the Encyclopdia Metropolitana appends to his etymological discussion of lullaby "a [manuscript] note written in a copy of Skinner" [i.e. At this point, the three angels enter the picture. Gilgamesh is said to have killed the snake, and then the zu bird flew away to the mountains with its young, while the ki-sikil-lil-la-ke fearfully destroys its house and runs for the forest. Alternatively he can take water of which a dog has drunk at night, but he must take care that it has not been exposed." Below it, were the names of the primogenitors: Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah. Yet another version claims that Lilith emerged as a divine entity that was born spontaneously, either out of the Great Supernal Abyss or out of the power of an aspect of God (the Gevurah of Din). That, ere the snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive, According to myths, Lilith, the female demon, is looking to snatch and devour sleeping infants as revenge on Adam. [50] However, to be exact the said passages do not employ the Hebrew word lilith itself and instead speak of "the first Eve" (Heb. In a desperate attempt to take revenge on Adam and all his offspring, Lilith devotes her efforts to harassing newborn children and their mothers. Many of the traditional characteristics of Lilith mythology are present in the author's depiction: Long dark hair, pale skin, a hatred and fear of children and babies, and an obsession with gazing at herself in a mirror. The Myth's Origins In the book of Genesis 1:27 it says, "Male and female, He created them." The condition was that Lilith promised that she would not touch any child that had an amulet inscribed with the angels' names. While researchers almost universally agree that a connection exists, recent scholarship has disputed the relevance of two sources previously used to connect the Jewish lilith to an Akkadian liltu the Gilgamesh appendix and the Arslan Tash amulets[14] (see below for discussion of these two problematic sources). [64], Two primary characteristics are seen in these legends about Lilith: Lilith as the incarnation of lust, causing men to be led astray, and Lilith as a child-killing witch, who strangles helpless neonates. So tempting! A bowl with a Jewish Babylonian Aramaic inscription, The National Library collections, In Christian versions of similar amulets, the assisting forces are saints. I climbed up for them.The Pretty Witch: The Hebrew title appearing at the top reads This amulet is for plague from the holy ARI (The holy ARI was Rabbi Isaac Luria, Vitals teacher). Two apples swayed upon a stem, In the 10th century text known as the Alphabet of ben Sirah, we find the story of Adam and Lilith. She is mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud (Eruvin 100b, Niddah 24b, Shabbat 151b, Baba Bathra 73a), in the Book of Adam and Eve as Adam's first wife, and in the Zohar Leviticus 19a as "a hot fiery female who first cohabited with man". This last term, according to the Hebrews, signifies the same thing, as the Greeks express by strix and lamiae, which are sorceresses or magicians, who seek to put to death new-born children. After Mephistopheles offers this warning to Faust, he then, quite ironically, encourages Faust to dance with "the Pretty Witch". The last manuscript which we will present also hails from 19th century Italy. The Angel Senoy,not much is Known of this mysterious being.Thought to have been trapped in a statue after YHVH sent Senoy,and his two brothers, Sansenoy and Semangelof to bring back Lilith to Adam. I thought, 'If, despite this lie, he strips [60] The amulets used against Lilith that were thought to derive from this tradition are, in fact, dated as being much older. Magical amulet, to be hung up it seems (scalloped top edge, like a plaque), with the formula "Senoy Sansenoy Semangelof Adam ve-Hava Lilit u." Same scalloped top edge and same text as AIU VI.B.31. The idea in the text that Adam had a wife prior to Eve may have developed from an interpretation of the Book of Genesis and its dual creation accounts; while Genesis 2:22 describes God's creation of Eve from Adam's rib, an earlier passage, 1:27, already indicates that a woman had been made: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." she said. Under the threat of death, Eve admits that she never loved Adam, while Lilith confesses that she always loved him: As the worst of the venom left my lips, The mask from my soul with a kiss I crawl She shall become an abode for jackals and a haunt for ostriches. A number of the poems feature Lilith directly, including the piece Unwritten which deals with the spiritual problem of the feminine being removed by the scribes from The Bible. This is the earliest Jewish amulet to appear in paper print. A blank space is left for the name of the mother. (c. 10th century), which was followed by the Zohar and other Kabbalistic writings. First published in 1883, the poem uses the traditional myths surrounding the triad of Adam, Eve, and Lilith. All rights reserved The National Library of Israel 2017 , The story of the three angels charged with safeguarding newborn babies and their mothers. A publication about birth customs by the Jewish Museum of Switzerland also includes oral accounts from 20th century Baden-Wrttemberg which likewise mention circling movements with a knife in order to protect a woman in childbirth.[82]. These two aspects of the Lilith legend seemed to have evolved separately; there is hardly a tale where she encompasses both roles. The letters appearing in the upper amulet , likely transliterated as Anaktam Pastam Paspasim Dionsim form one of the secret divine names, according to certain Jewish mystical traditions. [19][pageneeded], Samuel Noah Kramer (1932, published 1938)[20] translated ki-sikil-lil-la-ke as "Lilith" in Tablet XII of the Epic of Gilgamesh dated c.600 BC. He hath slain them' (Num. [49] Moses said: [God,] do not do it [i.e. The "screech owl" translation of the King James Version is, together with the "owl" (yanup, probably a water bird) in 34:11 and the "great owl" (qippoz, properly a snake) of 34:15, an attempt to render the passage by choosing suitable animals for difficult to translate Hebrew words. The word itself in turn seems to be a distortion of, "R. Hanina said: One may not sleep in a house alone [in a lonely house], and whoever sleeps in a house alone is seized by Lilith." Introducing Lilith, whom shed scent Lilith appears as a whole described in many alternative versions O Lilith, National... Angels names are not completely identical, the terms lili and lltu mean.. Remembers her oath, and all 1883, the three angels enter the picture primogenitors: Abraham Sarah... 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