#lilitu

They told you that Lilith was banished from the Garden of Eden. But they lied.

Lilith is the most controversial of all Jewish figures — and for good reason.

For six years, Jewitches has held her as a no-go topic due to the death threats and bigotry that resulted upon speaking up…but no longer.

Throne Seal & Angle Key of Lilith from The Book of Sitra Achra

Lilith represents the primordial feminine current of untamed freedom and refusal of imposed subservience. She is the first rebel against patriarchal and Cosmic domination, choosing exile and sovereignty over obedient place within a flawed order. In her myth the initiate beholds liberation through refusal.

She governs nocturnal wisdom, erotic power, independence, and the mysteries of self-created identity. Through Lilith one learns to reclaim energies demonized by religion: sexuality, autonomy, intuition, and fierce self-possession. She is mother to many infernal lineages and queen of the nightside path.

Nope. This is 100% incorrect.

First, God doesn't have a consort of any kind in Judaism. There is some evidence that suggests some ancient people venerated Asherah as a consort to Yahweh, but it's important to note that while this religion would be related to Judaism, it would not itself be Judaism.

As for Lilith, she appears to be a kind of demonic entity that was influenced by the mythology of the lilitu, a class of malevolent beings believed to suck the life from babies (thus explaining SIDS) and sexually assaulted men at night (thus explaining nocturnal emissions). The first text to reckon Lilith as someone's consort was The Alphabet of Ben Sira, a medieval text with a satirical character. Lilith was imagined as the first wife of Adam, who became a demon after refusing to behave like a proper submissive wife.

In recent years, a number of conspiracy theories have sprung up around Lilith. One of them is that she was actually an ancient mother goddess who was demonized as patriarchy and monotheism took over. This is simply unsupported by evidence - again, Lilith's roots can be traced back to the lilitu. (While deities such as Ishtar and Ba'al were reinterpreted as demonic entities, this was because the people who did it had beef with the Babylonians, who were often adversarial to the Jewish people.)