Question:
As-Salamu’alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu respected scholars and shuyukh.
I am a high school student whose teacher is agnostic and assigned us to ask our religious scholars that we trust about our belief on the universal character “Lilith.” Do we believe in her? What is she? Is it true that she was before Eve and religious figures are trying to get rid of her? Or is all of this just more talk trying to get people to doubt religion?
Thank you!
Answer:
`Alaykum Salam,
The Hebrew term lilit appears once in the book of Isaiah to mean a night animal. Its personalization and mythification are later fictive developments from the imaginations of Orientalists and Jewish folklore.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
