However, nowhere do the rabbis specify what happened to the first woman, leaving the matter open for further speculation. [82], Rabbi Naphtali Hirsch ben Elieser Treves described this custom as early as 1560, and later references to a knife or sword by the birthing bed by both Paul Christian Kirchner and Johann Christian Georg Bodenschatz indicate its continuance. [86], The occult writer Ahmad al-Buni (d. 1225), in his Sun of the Great Knowledge (Arabic: ), mentions a demon called "the mother of children" ( ), a term also used "in one place". The repetition of these sounds (sen-san-sen-sem) enhances the whip-like, whispering, threatening effect. When Lilith refused to return to Adam, God punished her by causing 100 of her children to die each day. After Mephistopheles offers this warning to Faust, he then, quite ironically, encourages Faust to dance with "the Pretty Witch". 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. The condition was that Lilith promised that she would not touch any child that had an amulet inscribed with the angels' names. In later periods paint-ed amulets were prepared, and these in time were replaced by prints. Zeus was said to have given her the gift of sight. This is the earliest Jewish amulet to appear in paper print. (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. A lovely dream I dreamt one day Lilith continues to serve as source material in today's popular culture, Western culture, literature, occultism, fantasy, and horror. [85] Her gift was the "mark of a Sibyl", a gift of second sight. Beware of her. God separated the female from Adam's side. [76], The Zohar adds further that two female spirits instead of one, Lilith and Naamah, desired Adam and seduced him. A thousand years later, the residents of the land were still dealing with fairly frequent outbreaks. 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]. [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, The Jerusalem Talmud is incomplete here, but the Babylonian Talmud on Tractate Niddah (2a76b) is complete. Surrounding the image is writing in spiral form; the writing often begins at the centre and works its way to the edge. Though the names are not completely identical, the same whispering, threatening motif can be heard here as well. Apples have been man's desire. Second, this new woman is still met with harsh rabbinic allegations. 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.Faust: The three angels were made popular by the Alphabet of ben Sirah, while the illustrations of their images in various amulets also contributed to their fame. 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. 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). Moses responds to a threat by God that He will destroy the Israelite people. In the Latin Vulgate Book of Isaiah 34:14, Lilith is translated lamia. 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. 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. She gives birth to multitudes of djinns and demons, the first of them being named Agrimas. The Bishops' Bible of Matthew Parker (1568) from the Latin: Isa 34:14 there shall the Lamia lye and haue her lodgyng. She tells Elijah that she will lose her power if someone uses her secret names, which she reveals at the end: lilith, abitu, abizu, hakash, avers hikpodu, ayalu, matrota [78], In other amulets, probably informed by The Alphabet of Ben-Sira, she is Adam's first wife. 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. The "first light", which is the light of Mercy (one of the Sefirot), appeared on the first day of creation when God said "Let there be light". According to occult practises, she would be subject to the demon-king Murrah al-Abyad, which appears to be another name for Iblis used in magical writings. Lilith is also mentioned in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis. Before doing so, she attaches herself to Cain and bears him numerous spirits and demons. Accompanying his Lady Lilith painting from 1866, Rossetti wrote a sonnet entitled Lilith, which was first published in Swinburne's pamphlet-review (1868), Notes on the Royal Academy Exhibition. This light became hidden and the Holiness became surrounded by a husk of evil. This passage may be related to the mention of Lilith in Talmud Shabbath 151b (see above), and also to Talmud Eruvin 18b where nocturnal emissions are connected with the begettal of demons. The amulets used against Lilith that were thought to derive from this tradition are, in fact, dated as being much older. It is a collection of stories about heroes of the Bible and Talmud, it may have been a collection of folk-tales, a refutation of Christian, Karaite, or other separatist movements; its content seems so offensive to contemporary Jews that it was even suggested that it could be an anti-Jewish satire,[62] although, in any case, the text was accepted by the Jewish mystics of medieval Germany.[49]. It made its way to the Land of Israel from Egypt around 541-542 AD. For other uses, see, The spirit in the tree in the Gilgamesh cycle, The bird-footed woman in the Burney Relief, Alsatian Krasmesser (16th to 20th century), In Western esotericism and modern occultism, , -, - ; - , . After God created Adam, who was alone, He said, 'It is not good for man to be alone' (Genesis 2:18). British poet John Siddique's 2011 collection Full Blood has a suite of 11 poems called The Tree of Life, which features Lilith as the divine feminine aspect of God. And find again the paths of life. Tablet XII is not part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, but is a later Assyrian Akkadian translation of the latter part of the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. The name of his mate is Mehetabel daughter of Matred, and their daughter is Lilith.[73]. 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. Who's that there?Mephistopheles: [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. Leland further notes that Herodias is a name that comes from west Asia, where it denoted an early form of Lilith. She was notorious for being a vampiric spirit and loved sucking men's blood. In this folk tradition that arose in the early Middle Ages Lilith, a dominant female demon, became identified with Asmodeus, King of Demons, as his queen. And she also afflicts him with sickness, and he knows it not, and all this takes place when the moon is on the wane.[74]. God sent three angelsSenoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelofto find Lilith and bring her back. Nebuchadnezzar sets forth various ordeals for Ben Sira, who responds with 22 stories. The text states that new areas are discovered from time to time, where the plague of archaeology has taken hold in the northern, southern and central regions. The same goes for the story of Lilith as the first woman, and her escape from Adam. [7] In the Ancient Mesopotamian religion, found in cuneiform texts of Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia Lilith signifies a spirit or demon.[1][8][9]. (CD-ROM). The image here is taken from a later printing of the book which includes various commentaries on the writings of Vital and Luria, but the amulet, or similar versions of it, appear in earlier printings as well. The names are surrounded by three frames: The first has illustrations of a birth and circumcision ceremony, the second frame consists of verses, and the third features decorative ornaments. Two apples swayed upon a stem, Hebrew: , -, - ; - , , u-pagu iyyim et-iyyim, w-sair al-rhu yiqra; ak-am hirgia lilit, u-maa lah manoa. (The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,) 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. Kabbalistic mysticism attempted to establish a more exact relationship between Lilith and God. [50] However, to be exact the said passages do not employ the Hebrew word lilith itself and instead speak of "the first Eve" (Heb. The Rabbis, noting Adam's exclamation, "this time (zot hapaam) [this is] bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh" (Genesis 2:23), took it as an intimation that there must already have been a "first time". [34][c] Quoting from Isaiah 34 (NAB): (12) Her nobles shall be no more, nor shall kings be proclaimed there; all her princes are gone. [75], A copy of Jean de Pauly's translation of the Zohar in the Ritman Library contains an inserted late 17th century printed Hebrew sheet for use in magical amulets where the prophet Elijah confronts Lilith. When Lilith winds it tight around young men Found in the wild waters The message was delivered She declined their offer Thus refused to return. 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. To prevent Lilith and Samael's demonic children Lilin from filling the world, God castrated Samael. [72] With Lilith being unable to fornicate with Samael anymore, she sought to couple with men who experience nocturnal emissions. The midrash develops the story of Moses's plea after God expresses anger at the bad report of the spies. The angels were able, however, to extract a vow that Lilith would not harm the offspring of Adam and his second wife, Eve. This edition was published in 1855 in the city of Lemberg, todays Lviv, in western Ukraine. 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. Smamit escapes the demon and flees to an isolated mountain where she builds a fortified home. Charles Leland associated Aradia with Lilith: Aradia, says Leland, is Herodias, who was regarded in stregheria folklore as being associated with Diana as chief of the witches. (Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin 69b). That, ere the snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive, [80] Richardson did not endorse the theory and modern lexicographers consider it a false etymology. 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. While God created Adam, who was alone, He said, "It is not good for man to be alone" (Genesis 2:18). Lilith leaves Adam in Eden, as she is not a suitable helpmate for him. 'Return to Adam without delay,' the angels said, `or we will drown you!' They found her at the Red Sea, where she was giving birth daily to numerous demons. [89] Symbols appearing in the painting allude to the "femme fatale" reputation of the Romantic Lilith: poppies (death and cold) and white roses (sterile passion). The background and purpose of The Alphabet of Ben-Sira is unclear. Senoy, Sansenoy and Smangeluf (sometimes written Semangelof, or Snvi, Snsnvi and Smnglof) are three guarding angels in the Jewish mythology. God sent three angels after Lilith named Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof, who demanded that she return. 'I have been deserted by my helpmeet' God at once sent the angels Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof to fetch Lilith . [52], The correctly worded incantation bowl was capable of warding off Lilith or Lilit from the household. If the infant is male, I have dominion over him for eight days after his birth, and if female, for twenty days.". Faust: [dancing with the young witch] Many early occult writers that contributed to modern day Wicca expressed special reverence for Lilith. 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.] 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. 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. Schrader's and Levy's view is therefore partly dependent on a later dating of Deutero-Isaiah to the 6th century BC, and the presence of Jews in Babylon which would coincide with the possible references to the Lltu in Babylonian demonology. 16, 1965, p. 1-13, The Black Suitcase of Magical Amulets with a Mysterious History. This God breathed into Adam, who began to spring to life and his female was attached to his side. Some uses of lltu are listed in the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD, 1956, L.190), in Wolfram von Soden's Akkadisches Handwrterbuch (AHw, p.553), and Reallexikon der Assyriologie (RLA, p. [104], This article is about the Jewish religious figure Lilith. In Hebrew-language texts, the term lilith or lilit (translated as "night creatures", "night monster", "night hag", or "screech owl") first occurs in a list of animals in Isaiah 34. 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. All rights reserved The National Library of Israel 2017 , The story of the three angels charged with safeguarding newborn babies and their mothers. Likewise, women who undergo wilful abortion, and those who support this practice are "seen in the sphere of Lilith". Australian poet and scholar Christopher John Brennan (18701932), included a section titled "Lilith" in his major work "Poems: 1913" (Sydney: G. B. Philip and Son, 1914). Accordingly, every day one hundred demons perish, and for the same reason, we write the angels' names on the amulets of young children. In 1881, the Lilith sonnet was renamed "Body's Beauty" in order to contrast it and Soul's Beauty. to ward of Lilith. Who Are You, 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? Blind Dragon acts as an intermediary between Lilith and Samael: Blind Dragon rides Lilith the Sinful may she be extirpated quickly in our days, Amen! Mller-Kessler, C. (2002) "A Charm against Demons of Time", in C. Wunsch (ed. The Alphabet of Ben-Sira is the earliest surviving source of the story, and the conception that Lilith was Adam's first wife became only widely known with the 17th century Lexicon Talmudicum of German scholar Johannes Buxtorf. The Black Suitcase of Magical Amulets with a Mysterious History. The female side was Lilith, whereupon she flew to the Cities of the Sea and attacked humankind. Angelic FoeOppressed By the Heavens PrikosnovenieReleased on: 2013-04-30Author: Angelic FoeCom. [97] According to one view, Lilith was originally a Sumerian, Babylonian, or Hebrew mother goddess of childbirth, children, women, and sexuality. A birthing amulet featuring an illustration of Adam and Eve. The Krasmesser would be used by a midwife or by the husband to draw a magic circle around the pregnant or birthing woman to protect her from Lilith and the evil eye, which were considered to represent the greatest danger for children and pregnant women. Asmodeus the great king of the demons has as a mate the Lesser (younger) Lilith, daughter of the king whose name is Qafsefoni. Said the Holy One to Adam, "If she agrees to come back, what is made is good. [84] Lamia had a vicious sexual appetite that matched her cannibalistic appetite for children. All rights reserved The National Library of Israel 2017 , The sages of Safed created amulets, the Jews of Italy wrote prayers and other Jews warned of less conventional plagues. Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof (sometimes written Semangelof, or Snvi, Snsnvi and Smnglof) are three guarding angels in Jewish mythology. 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 Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which developed around 1848,[89] were greatly influenced by Goethe's work on the theme of Lilith. The only true symbolic references ever used for Senoy , Sansenoy, and Semangelof were their names as insribed in bed posts, amulets, doorways. However, she was "cursed" to never be able to shut her eyes so that she would forever obsess over her dead children. (c. 10th century), which was followed by the Zohar and other Kabbalistic writings. Take a good look. According to myths, Lilith, the female demon, is looking to snatch and devour sleeping infants as revenge on Adam. Said the Holy One to Adam, 'If she agrees to come back, what is made is good. They found her beside the Red Sea, a region abounding in lascivious demons. 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. In the 10th century text known as the Alphabet of ben Sirah, we find the story of Adam and Lilith. The sound warns Lilith and gives her pause, making clear that she should not approach the mother and her newborn children. This amulet was written on parchment. According to Genesis rabbah 18:4, Adam was disgusted upon seeing the first woman full of "discharge and blood", and God had to provide him with another one. The three angels cast her away from heaven, and are now protecting children and mothers. 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. (image), The pseudepigraphical[58] 8th10th centuries Alphabet of Ben Sira is considered to be the oldest form of the story of Lilith as Adam's first wife. 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. She said, "I will not lie below," and he said, "I will not lie beneath you, but only on top. References to Lilith in the Zohar include the following: She roams at night, and goes all about the world and makes sport with men and causes them to emit seed. The Matron Lilith is the mate of Samael. As that youth's eyes burned at thine, so went "Printed sheet, late 17th century or early 18th century, 185x130 mm. In this particular case, the "arrow of Lilith" is most probably a scrap of, "Rabbah said: I saw how Hormin the son of Lilith was running on the parapet of the wall of Mahuza, and a rider, galloping below on horseback could not overtake him. The amulets contain written text featuring the names of the angels as well as graphic motifs of their images. To avert danger, it was held wise to strike the sleeping child's lips with one finger-whereupon Lilith would vanish. To take revenge on Adam, she pursues human children. He also created a woman from the earth, as He had created Adam And the Serpent seduced Holy Eve, and enough said for him who understands. As such, she would kill a pregnant mother's baby in the womb, causes impotence to men or attacks little children with illnesses. Once they saddled for him two mules which stood on two bridges of the Rognag; and he jumped from one to the other, backward and forward, holding in his hands two cups of wine, pouring alternately from one to the other, and not a drop fell to the ground." 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. Lilith had the power to transform into a woman's physical features, seduce her husband, and conceive a child. [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). [102], The western mystery tradition associates Lilith with the Qliphoth of kabbalah. [e], The early 5th-century Vulgate translated the same word as lamia. An amulet from the Bill Gross Collection, the National Librarys Time Travel Project. gone , were inscribed. (In English: Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof). 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. https://blog.nli.org.il/en/djm_sen-san-sem/, The figures of Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof appear here from right to left, 2020 . 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. This is the earliest Jewish amulet to appear in print. 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. If Lilith nevertheless succeeded in approaching the child and fondling him, he would laugh in his sleep. 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. Is he not found, O Lilith, whom shed scent The results were documented in detail by the emperors court historian. The common wisdom in Jerusalem of the period spoke of a new wave of pestilence hitting the city every six or seven years. . Folkloric traditions recorded around 1953 tell about a jinn called Qarinah, who was rejected by Adam and mated with Iblis instead. 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. [27], A connection between the Gilgamesh ki-sikil-lil-la-ke and the Jewish Lilith was rejected on textual grounds by Sergio Ribichini (1978). When Lilith saw this, she pronounced the Ineffable Name and flew away into the air. Lilith appears as a succubus in Aleister Crowley's De Arte Magica. She shall become an abode for jackals and a haunt for ostriches. She gave birth to a host of demons and became known as their mother. 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. A blank space is left for the name of the mother. And soft-shed kisses and soft sleep shall snare? The subsequent creation is performed with adequate precautions: Adam is made to sleep, so as not to witness the process itself (Sanhedrin 39a), and Eve is adorned with fine jewellery (Genesis rabbah 18:1) and brought to Adam by the angels Gabriel and Michael (ibid. Faust: (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. (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. Lilith is popular among theistic Satanists because of her association with Satan. Whence it comes that the Jews are accustomed to write in the four corners of the chamber of a woman just delivered, "Adam, Eve, be gone from hence lilith." Taking pity on Lamia, Zeus gave her the ability to remove and replace her eyes from their sockets. He also created a woman from the earth, as He had created Adam Ben Sira's fame reached Nebuchadnezzar II, who called him to his court. however, sent after her three angels-Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof by name,11 who soon located her in the same wild waters in which the Egyptians were to . The two twin androgynous couples resembled each other and both "were like the image of Above"; that is, that they are reproduced in a visible form of an androgynous deity. He then created a woman for Adam, from the earth, as He had created Adam himself, and called her Lilith. [5] Many traditional rabbinic authorities, including Maimonides and Menachem Meiri, reject the existence of Lilith. If you placed an amulet with the name of the 3 Angels on it, and placed it on the baby, lilith could not harm it. Moses pleads before God, that God should not be like Lilith who kills her own children. ), Ribichini, S. (1976) "Lilith nell-albero Huluppu", pp. She also agreed to have one hundred of her children die every day. Occasionally, a piece of paper with magic spells writ-ten on it was hung by the child's bed. 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. angels and Lilith is the basis for writing the names Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semange-lof on amulets hung around the necks of new-born babes: when Lilith sees the names, she remembers her . Below it, were the names of the primogenitors: Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah. The reading of scholars and translators is often guided by a decision about the complete list of eight creatures as a whole. (Patai81:455f). These amulets are mentioned in the Ben Sirah, and in fact, the story probably exists to give a more religious justification for the otherwise pretty superstition-and-magic . Lilit would seek revenge on the family by killing the children born to the husband and wife. [89] A few magical orders dedicated to the undercurrent of Lilith, featuring initiations specifically related to the arcana of the "first mother", exist. Senoy, Sansenoy, Semangelof. 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 left God and pursued Lilith, whom they overtook in the midst of the sea, in the mighty waters wherein the Egyptians were destined to drown. Adam's wife, his first. 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). Their names are Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof. 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 names of the three angels as well as those of Lilith and Satan, also appear. 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