When God created the first man from the dust of the earth, He looked at Adam standing alone and said what the Torah itself records: "It is not good for this man to be alone" (Genesis 2:18). So God formed a woman from the same earth, shaped her the same way, and called her Lilith.
The trouble started immediately. When Adam and Lilith tried to lie together, she refused to take the lower position. "I will not lie beneath you," she said. Adam insisted he belonged on top. Lilith's answer was devastating in its simplicity: "We are equal. We were both created from the earth."
Neither would yield. And when Lilith saw that Adam would never treat her as his equal, she did something no human had ever done before. She spoke the Ineffable Name of God — the secret, unutterable Name — and flew away into the sky.
Adam stood in the Garden and prayed. "Sovereign of the universe, the woman you gave me has run away." God dispatched three angels — Sanoy, Sansanoy, and Semangalof — to bring her back. They found her hovering over the sea, in the mighty waters where the Egyptians would one day drown.
"Return to Adam," the angels commanded. Lilith refused. They threatened to drown her. She made them a counteroffer: she would prey on newborn infants — boys for eight days after birth, girls for twenty — unless she saw the names of these three angels written on an amulet. In that case, she swore by the living God, she would have no power over the child.
God imposed one more condition. One hundred of Lilith's demon children would die every single day. She accepted even this. And so the first woman made from equal earth became something else entirely — a night creature haunting the edges of the world, her oath binding her, her freedom absolute, and one hundred of her children perishing daily as the price of her refusal to submit.