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Lilith

In the midrash (rabbinic story about the Torah story), Lilith is imagined as Adam’s first wife. Because she wanted equality, she wss ultimately banished, and God provided Adam with a more obedient wife. Lilith, according to tradition, lives on as a kind of demon, causing men to have wet dreams and stealing infant boys from their cribs. Today, Lilith has been reclaimed by Jewish feminists as a symbol of women’s equality.

Synonyms: Lillith

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