Who Lilith is in Jewish tradition

(4) "And Adam said: this is now..." Rabbi Yehuda bar Rebbi said: In the beginning He created her, and [Adam] saw that she was full of secretions and blood and separated her from him, and He returned and created her a second time. As it says: "this is now" this is the woman this time. This is now for me the one who will be my partner in the future. As it says: "A golden bell (pa'amon) and a pomegranate" (Exodus 28:34). "This is now" - this is she that perturbed me all night. It was asked before Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish: why was Adam not tired from all his dreams, but was tired from this one [Eve]? He said to them: because at the beginning of her creation she was just a dream, as it says: "bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh." Rabbi Tanhuma said: if a man marries a relative, of him it is written: "bone of my bones." "This one shall be called 'woman' because she was taken from man." From here we learn that Torah was given in Hebrew. Rabbi Pinchas and Rabbi Hilkiya in the name of Rabbi Simon said: just as the Torah was given in Hebrew, so too the world was created in Hebrew. You have heard it said: 'man' and 'woman' [in other languages as distinct words, unrelated to each other], so why ish and isha [the words for 'man' and 'woman' in Hebrew, which are related to each other]? Because this word falls from this word [and, hence, the grammatical inconsistency is explained if the Torah was given in Hebrew].

(1) On this subject, it is written, "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I - make, shall remain before Me, says the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain" (Isaiah 66:22). He does not say 'I have made,' but rather "I make," He constantly makes, from the secrets and the new teachings of the Torah.

(2) And on this subject, it is written, "And I have put My words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of My hand, that I may plant heavens, and lay the foundations of earth" (Is 51:16). He does not say "the heavens," but rather "heavens."

(3) Rabbi Elazar then asked, what is the meaning of "I have covered you in the shadow of My hand?" He told him, when the Torah was given to Moses, many tens of thousands of angels on high were about to burn him with the flames of their mouths, but the Holy One, blessed be He, protected him. So now, when the new explanation on the Torah is uttered, the saying rises up, is crowned, and then stands before the Holy One, blessed be He. And He guards that saying and shelters the person who said it so that it may be known only to Him and to stop the angels from envying him until a new heaven and earth are made from that saying. So it says, "I have covered you in the shadow of My hand, that I may plant heavens, and lay the foundations of earth." And from this we learn that everything which is hidden from the eye has a supernal advantage, as expressed in "I have covered you in the shadow of My hand." But why should it be covered and hidden out of sight? So that it may receive the supernal advantage. As it says, "that I may plant heavens and lay the foundations of earth," as we have learned.

(4) "And say to Zion, You are My people" [Is. 51:16]. The phrase "and say to Zion" — to those gates and those words that are stated one by the other, "You are My people" [Hebrew ami atah]. Do not pronounce it ami atah but rather imi atah, "be My partner." Just as I have made the heavens and the earth with My words, as is written, "By the word of the LORD the heavens were made" (Ps. 33:6), so shall you. Happy are those who occupy themselves in the Torah.

(5) And so, you may say that those words, by any person, [even] one who is ignorant, have the same effect. Come and see, however, what happens when a person who is not familiar with the secrets of the Torah brings forth a new explanation of which he does not know the exact truth, as he should. Under those circumstances, that word rises upward, and "a perverse man" (Proverbs 16:29), 'a lying tongue' goes forth to grab it. He emerges from the cavern of the great abyss, makes a leap of 500 parasangs to receive that word, then grabs it, returns with it to his female partner, and makes a false heaven out of it, which is called Tohu [Chaos]. The perverse one then flies in that heaven, traversing 6,000 parasangs in one bound. And as soon as this false heaven is formed, a wife of harlotry emerges, seizes onto this false heaven, and joins it. From there, she leaves to slay by the thousands and tens of thousands. Because as long as she appends herself to this heaven, she has the authority and the ability to fly and traverse the whole world in an instant.

(6) And on this subject, it is written, "Woe to them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity" (Is. 5:18). "Iniquity" is related to the [perverse] man. "And sin as it were with a cart rope". What is sin? This is the female, namely the wife of harlotry. The gender is implied in the phrase, "and sin as it were with a cart rope." He [who sins] draws iniquity, [the Qlippoth], with these cords of vanity. And afterwards: "draws sin as it were with a cart rope." - that female, who is called "sin" - as she grows strong and flies off to slay human beings. Therefore, "she has cast down many deadly wounded" (Proverbs 7:26). Who "has cast down?" That sin that slays human beings. And who caused all this? The student of the law who did not earn the right to teach, but does so [anyway]. So may the Merciful One save us!

(7) Rabbi Shimon said to all the friends, I beg of you all not to utter any words of the Torah which you did not hear from a great tree and did not learn properly. So that you may not be the cause of that wife of harlotry slaying multitudes of human beings without reason! They all answered: May the Merciful One save us all!

(8) Come and see, the Holy One, blessed be He, created the world using the Torah. And this has been explained in the verse, "Then I was by Him as a nurseling, and I was daily all His delight" (Prov. 8:30). He looked at the Torah once, twice, and thrice. The fourth time He addressed them. Eventually, He used the Torah to teach people how not to be misled and to misunderstand it. As it is written, "Then He saw and declared it; He established it and searched it out. And He said to man..." [Job 28:27-28] So according to these four times, expressed as, "Then He saw it and declared it; He established it and searched it out," The Holy One created what He had created. And He did not accomplish His mission until He brought forth four words. Therefore it is written, "In the beginning Elohim created the..." (Gen 1:1) which contains four words [in Hebrew]. After that, "heaven". So these correspond to the four times that the Holy One, blessed be He, looked into the Torah before He brought his works into actuality.

(9) Rabbi Elazar was on his way to visit his father-in-law, Rabbi Yossi, the son of Rabbi Shimon, son of Lakunya,