Eve and Lilith
...to destroy the offspring of her rival. After Eve sinned, due to eating an apple from the Tree of Knowledge (knowing the difference between good and bad), Adam briefly joined up with Lilith. She gave birth to a number of children during this interval. All became demons. A woman cannot impregnate without a man and if Lilith's offspring were demons wouldn't Adam have taken part in that? What if it was Adam that was evil but because men cannot bear children, Lilith was cursed with the evil title? Genesis 5.3 says that Adam fathered a son “in his own likeness”. You could also say he previously fathered children he did not like, to be exact, the demons. The "evil" Lilith bore demons while Eve, being righteous as she is, bore humans. A larger, broader understanding of Lilith is her role as an icon of female independence. Should Lilith be judged a fool because she threw away paradise just because she would not comply with Adam’s demands? I do not think it should be this way. I understand it is a lot easier to say this now in our modern world and many would not have said such things as I am saying, in the biblical periods but even now, after our world has progressed as it has, many still believe that women are scornful and unholy. Lilith represents the stereotypical group of people who would rather be alone than lose their dignity. The difference between Lilith and Eve is also the concept that Eve at least is redeemable because she wishes to be right or good in the eyes of God. Lilith, however, rejected the idea of serving for others (after all, she received the same Breath from God that Adam did and therefore was his equal) and eagerly rebelled, and consequently is irredeemable. While she claims that Eve was specifically made to be a slave to her husband, she can't shake the irritating, horrible thought that Eve chose to remain, and still managed to enjoy her life. Lilith had free will and was independent whereas eve was a follower and did whatever was demanded of her. How do you think the world would be today if Lilith had been the predominant story in the Tanakh rather than the one about Adam and Hava? I think the world since that time would have been a better, more equal and fair world. The reason I believe in this is because people would relate to women with a nicer much appropriate attitude and our conflicts would be easier to resolve. If people unite and think together as one then our world would be peaceful the w...