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Equality and Empowerment, Jewish Feminism and the Revival of Lilith (9) : Mahmoud Abdel Hadi

Equality and Empowerment, Jewish Feminism and the Revival of Lilith (9) : Mahmoud Abdel Hadi According to some Jewish legends, Adam - peace be upon him - had a first wife named Lilith, then she became a demon (Diablo). According to the archives of Jewish women until the late twentieth century, the demon Lilith - Adam's first wife - had a fearsome reputation, seeing her as a kidnapper, a murderer of children, and a seducer for men. Only with the advent of the feminist movement in the 1960s did Lilith gain her current high position as a model for independent women; Modern Jewish theologian and interpreter Judith Blasco played a major role in transforming Lilith from a demon into a role model. Who is Lilith? And how was it revived again to be the complete model that the global feminist movement seeks to impose on the women of the world? Contemporary feminism found inspiration in the image of Lilith, as an uncontrollable woman, and decisively changed her image from a demon to a powerful woman. The creation of the Jewish feminist magazine Lilith was the first opportunity for Jewish feminism, and later global feminism, to move forward. This article attempts to draw the attention of the followers of the feminist movement, who are interested, supporters, opponents, and affiliated, and to inform them of the absent truth that international organizations, international conferences and international conventions, nor the feminist centers that filled the earth with their ideas, activities, activities and noises do not mention, by mentioning the reality of the role of American Jewish feminism in deviation. With the demands of Western feminism, its escalation to the demand for absolute equality and empowerment, and the reproduction of the horrific myth of Lilith as a heroic model of what contemporary women should be. The seventies of the last century witnessed the emergence of two strange movements, which were not expected at the time to reach the extent of their spread and success, nor to be able to impose their ideas on the political, legislative, media and educational institutions in many countries of the world, and even to become at the center of the concerns of organizations international; These two movements are the second wave of feminism, and homosexuality, and both movements appeared in the United States of America at the hands of the leaders of the Jewish feminist movement, and the gatherings of "sexual perverts" Jews, as described at the time. As for the first movement, it is the subject of this article, and as for the second movement, we will discuss it in another opportunity after completing this series, God willing. The legend of "Lilith" The legend of "Lilith" dates back to the eighth or ninth century in what is known as the "Ben Sira alphabet", which are exegetical writings of biblical texts, which are known in the Hebrew language as "Madrashim". The legend claims that Lilith is the first wife of our master Adam - peace be upon him - whom God - the Almighty - created from the same dirt, so she felt that she was equal with our master Adam in everything, and one day Lilith refused to submit herself to Adam in their intimate relationship, So she left him and left Paradise and resorted to Satan, and when Adam complained to his Lord about what Lilith had done, God sent 3 angels to her to take her back, but she told them that she could not return, because she had married Satan, and she started to get in the way of men from the sons of Adam and seduced them to give birth to demons from them. And when the loneliness of our master Adam was prolonged, he asked his Lord to create for him an alternative wife, so He created for him Eve from his rib, obedient to our master Adam. Throughout history, Lilith has been described in the most horrific descriptions, as she is a seducer of men, and the birth of demons, and she kills, perishes, tears, suffocates and eats boys and girls, and she has wings and long hair and appears at night, and she is dominant over newborn males until the eighth day, and from females until the twelfth day. since birth. The legend of Lilith continued in the exegetical writings of the rabbis of later ages as a symbol of cosmic evil, lust, domination, sin, rebellion, crime, immorality, and disobedience. Thus, the myth presented us with two models of women: the first is Lilith, the rebellious, rebellious, who sees herself as equal to one another and equal to our master Adam, and the second is the obedient and peaceful Eve who complements our master Adam and takes care of his affairs, raises his children, and helps him with the burdens of life. Regardless of the long talk about the origin of this legend, its narratives, its development and its relationship to the Torah, it has continued to circulate, over the past ages to this day, and has turned into a source of inspiration for the clergy, writers, poets, artists, painters, musicians, filmmakers, priests and charlatans who trade in making amulets and talismans for protection. From Lilith and Her Demons, since the 19th century, Lilith has become famous throughout the Western world, and has been portrayed in books, films, television shows, video games, animations, comics, and music. Finally, she was the biggest inspiration for the feminist movement. Legend Revival The Jews suffered greatly in Western countries and the United States in the first half of the last century and the centuries that preceded it, and just as Western women suffered from persecution and discrimination, the Jewish woman also suffered from the same thing, even more severely. The Jewish feminist movement began in the sixties of the last century, and at that time was in harmony with the Western feminist movement, and called for the liberation of women, and this was clearly embodied in the book of Jewish feminist Betty Friedan “The Female Mystery” in 1963, but the movement gained full momentum in the seventies of the last century, Having found in the legend Lilith a strong female model worthy of imitation. "Since that time, interest in the character of Lilith has grown among Jewish and non-Jewish feminists," says Rabbi Menachem Levin, one of the leading rabbis in the United States. The Jewish feminist movement - in the early seventies of the last century - revived and celebrated the myth of Lilith and presented it as an integrated feminist model, and worked to market it among women and girls, with its historical extensions, religious connections, and inspiring human dimensions. They look at Lilith, not Lilith is not only considered Adam's powerful first wife, but also the first ever independent woman. Thus, the Jewish feminist movement - in the early seventies of the last century - revived and celebrated the myth of Lilith and presented it as an integrated feminist model, and worked to market it among women and girls, with its historical extensions, religious links, and inspiring human dimensions. They look at Lilith, Not only as Adam's powerful first wife, Lilith, but also as the first ever independent woman. In an article entitled "Lilith's Journey: Modern American Jewish Feminist Literature" published in January 2010, Professor Ann R. Shapiro of the Jewish Feminist Movement in the United States explained that while educated Protestant women dominated the first wave of feminism in the The latter half of the 19th century centered on suffrage, as the broader goal of equality, the second wave was markedly Jewish; "It is hard to imagine a feminist movement without the contributions of Jewish American women," Shapiro says. "Most of these Jewish women considered themselves secular Jews, and did not initially associate their feminism with Judaism." By 1972, the new women's magazine "Ms." was published with a half-Jewish editorial staff, and in the same year, the American-Israeli Jewish writer and journalist Lili Rivlin published an article on Lilith calling for a restoration of Lilith's personality for contemporary women. Rivlin, who graduated from George Washington University in 1959, is one of a list of Jewish feminists who changed the face of the United States and Jewish women; The self-sufficient women of the feminist movement, Rivlin says, “adopted the myth of Lilith as their myth. They transformed her into a feminine symbol of autonomy, sexual choice, and control of one’s destiny. Contemporary feminism has found inspiration in the image of Lilith, as an uncontrollable woman. And decisively changed her image from a demon to a strong woman." In 1976, a Jewish feminist magazine was issued under the name "Lilith", and its slogan was "The Independent Jewish Woman's Journal." The introductory issue noted Lilith's attractiveness and refused to understand her as a demon. The magazine has undertaken the process of rehabilitating Lilith's reputation, assuring her relevance to the voices of women who are not afraid to take risks to ensure gender equality. Aviva Kantor Zhukov, founding member of the editorial board of Lilith magazine, the Jewish Feminist Organization and the Zionist Socialist Union, says of women and equality associated with the Lilith myth and the Bible: “Jews have periodically created 'return to source' movements for Judaism, and Jewish history is replete with such efforts. When We fight for the equality of women and men and see Lilith as the embodiment of this struggle, we are part of this tradition by going back to the source, building from its pure, untainted foundation.The creation of the Jewish Feminist Journal was the first opportunity for Jewish feminism and later for feminism in general to move forward, and was a legend Lilith serves as a launchpad for this interesting development." In 1998, the book "Which Lilith? Feminist Writers Reviving the World's First Woman" was published in the United States, which was co-authored by 3 prominent Jewish feminists in the United States: Lily Rivlin, Enid Deem, and Henny Winkart. Second-wave feminist leader Felich Chesler said, "Lilith is one of the great archetypes of females, a role model that has been buried, rejected, despised, and misread by women and men alike." The Jewish feminist movement did not stop at exporting the legend of Lilith, and adopting it as a model of complete equality and comprehensive empowerment. Rather, it worked to vindicate it and provide a different interpretation of its events, and it did not stop there either, but also worked on enacting legislation and charters that guarantee this model's survival and permanence. Follows (Jewish Feminism: The Exoneration of Lilith)( Mahmoud Abdel Hadi - Journalist and researcher )

Equality and Empowerment, Jewish Feminism and the Revival of Lilith (9) : Mahmoud Abdel Hadi


According to some Jewish legends, Adam - peace be upon him - had a first wife named Lilith, then she became a demon (Diablo).

According to the archives of Jewish women until the late twentieth century, the demon Lilith - Adam's first wife - had a fearsome reputation, seeing her as a kidnapper, a murderer of children, and a seducer for men. Only with the advent of the feminist movement in the 1960s did Lilith gain her current high position as a model for independent women; Modern Jewish theologian and interpreter Judith Blasco played a major role in transforming Lilith from a demon into a role model. Who is Lilith? And how was it revived again to be the complete model that the global feminist movement seeks to impose on the women of the world?

Contemporary feminism found inspiration in the image of Lilith, as an uncontrollable woman, and decisively changed her image from a demon to a powerful woman. The creation of the Jewish feminist magazine Lilith was the first opportunity for Jewish feminism, and later global feminism, to move forward.

This article attempts to draw the attention of the followers of the feminist movement, who are interested, supporters, opponents, and affiliated, and to inform them of the absent truth that international organizations, international conferences and international conventions, nor the feminist centers that filled the earth with their ideas, activities, activities and noises do not mention, by mentioning the reality of the role of American Jewish feminism in deviation. With the demands of Western feminism, its escalation to the demand for absolute equality and empowerment, and the reproduction of the horrific myth of Lilith as a heroic model of what contemporary women should be.

The seventies of the last century witnessed the emergence of two strange movements, which were not expected at the time to reach the extent of their spread and success, nor to be able to impose their ideas on the political, legislative, media and educational institutions in many countries of the world, and even to become at the center of the concerns of organizations international; These two movements are the second wave of feminism, and homosexuality, and both movements appeared in the United States of America at the hands of the leaders of the Jewish feminist movement, and the gatherings of "sexual perverts" Jews, as described at the time. As for the first movement, it is the subject of this article, and as for the second movement, we will discuss it in another opportunity after completing this series, God willing.

The legend of "Lilith"
The legend of "Lilith" dates back to the eighth or ninth century in what is known as the "Ben Sira alphabet", which are exegetical writings of biblical texts, which are known in the Hebrew language as "Madrashim". The legend claims that Lilith is the first wife of our master Adam - peace be upon him - whom God - the Almighty - created from the same dirt, so she felt that she was equal with our master Adam in everything, and one day Lilith refused to submit herself to Adam in their intimate relationship, So she left him and left Paradise and resorted to Satan, and when Adam complained to his Lord about what Lilith had done, God sent 3 angels to her to take her back, but she told them that she could not return, because she had married Satan, and she started to get in the way of men from the sons of Adam and seduced them to give birth to demons from them. And when the loneliness of our master Adam was prolonged, he asked his Lord to create for him an alternative wife, so He created for him Eve from his rib, obedient to our master Adam.

Throughout history, Lilith has been described in the most horrific descriptions, as she is a seducer of men, and the birth of demons, and she kills, perishes, tears, suffocates and eats boys and girls, and she has wings and long hair and appears at night, and she is dominant over newborn males until the eighth day, and from females until the twelfth day. since birth.

The legend of Lilith continued in the exegetical writings of the rabbis of later ages as a symbol of cosmic evil, lust, domination, sin, rebellion, crime, immorality, and disobedience.

Thus, the myth presented us with two models of women: the first is Lilith, the rebellious, rebellious, who sees herself as equal to one another and equal to our master Adam, and the second is the obedient and peaceful Eve who complements our master Adam and takes care of his affairs, raises his children, and helps him with the burdens of life.

Regardless of the long talk about the origin of this legend, its narratives, its development and its relationship to the Torah, it has continued to circulate, over the past ages to this day, and has turned into a source of inspiration for the clergy, writers, poets, artists, painters, musicians, filmmakers, priests and charlatans who trade in making amulets and talismans for protection. From Lilith and Her Demons, since the 19th century, Lilith has become famous throughout the Western world, and has been portrayed in books, films, television shows, video games, animations, comics, and music. Finally, she was the biggest inspiration for the feminist movement.

Legend Revival
The Jews suffered greatly in Western countries and the United States in the first half of the last century and the centuries that preceded it, and just as Western women suffered from persecution and discrimination, the Jewish woman also suffered from the same thing, even more severely. The Jewish feminist movement began in the sixties of the last century, and at that time was in harmony with the Western feminist movement, and called for the liberation of women, and this was clearly embodied in the book of Jewish feminist Betty Friedan “The Female Mystery” in 1963, but the movement gained full momentum in the seventies of the last century, Having found in the legend Lilith a strong female model worthy of imitation. "Since that time, interest in the character of Lilith has grown among Jewish and non-Jewish feminists," says Rabbi Menachem Levin, one of the leading rabbis in the United States.

The Jewish feminist movement - in the early seventies of the last century - revived and celebrated the myth of Lilith and presented it as an integrated feminist model, and worked to market it among women and girls, with its historical extensions, religious connections, and inspiring human dimensions. They look at Lilith, not Lilith is not only considered Adam's powerful first wife, but also the first ever independent woman.

Thus, the Jewish feminist movement - in the early seventies of the last century - revived and celebrated the myth of Lilith and presented it as an integrated feminist model, and worked to market it among women and girls, with its historical extensions, religious links, and inspiring human dimensions. They look at Lilith, Not only as Adam's powerful first wife, Lilith, but also as the first ever independent woman.

In an article entitled "Lilith's Journey: Modern American Jewish Feminist Literature" published in January 2010, Professor Ann R. Shapiro of the Jewish Feminist Movement in the United States explained that while educated Protestant women dominated the first wave of feminism in the The latter half of the 19th century centered on suffrage, as the broader goal of equality, the second wave was markedly Jewish; "It is hard to imagine a feminist movement without the contributions of Jewish American women," Shapiro says. "Most of these Jewish women considered themselves secular Jews, and did not initially associate their feminism with Judaism."

By 1972, the new women's magazine "Ms." was published with a half-Jewish editorial staff, and in the same year, the American-Israeli Jewish writer and journalist Lili Rivlin published an article on Lilith calling for a restoration of Lilith's personality for contemporary women. Rivlin, who graduated from George Washington University in 1959, is one of a list of Jewish feminists who changed the face of the United States and Jewish women; The self-sufficient women of the feminist movement, Rivlin says, “adopted the myth of Lilith as their myth. They transformed her into a feminine symbol of autonomy, sexual choice, and control of one’s destiny. Contemporary feminism has found inspiration in the image of Lilith, as an uncontrollable woman. And decisively changed her image from a demon to a strong woman."

In 1976, a Jewish feminist magazine was issued under the name "Lilith", and its slogan was "The Independent Jewish Woman's Journal." The introductory issue noted Lilith's attractiveness and refused to understand her as a demon. The magazine has undertaken the process of rehabilitating Lilith's reputation, assuring her relevance to the voices of women who are not afraid to take risks to ensure gender equality.

Aviva Kantor Zhukov, founding member of the editorial board of Lilith magazine, the Jewish Feminist Organization and the Zionist Socialist Union, says of women and equality associated with the Lilith myth and the Bible: “Jews have periodically created 'return to source' movements for Judaism, and Jewish history is replete with such efforts. When We fight for the equality of women and men and see Lilith as the embodiment of this struggle, we are part of this tradition by going back to the source, building from its pure, untainted foundation.The creation of the Jewish Feminist Journal was the first opportunity for Jewish feminism and later for feminism in general to move forward, and was a legend Lilith serves as a launchpad for this interesting development."

In 1998, the book "Which Lilith? Feminist Writers Reviving the World's First Woman" was published in the United States, which was co-authored by 3 prominent Jewish feminists in the United States: Lily Rivlin, Enid Deem, and Henny Winkart. Second-wave feminist leader Felich Chesler said, "Lilith is one of the great archetypes of females, a role model that has been buried, rejected, despised, and misread by women and men alike."

The Jewish feminist movement did not stop at exporting the legend of Lilith, and adopting it as a model of complete equality and comprehensive empowerment. Rather, it worked to vindicate it and provide a different interpretation of its events, and it did not stop there either, but also worked on enacting legislation and charters that guarantee this model's survival and permanence.

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