Rick Strassman
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Podcast Appearances
And those events took place.
The stories themselves are just written down.
And so people have been studying them for thousands of years.
No mention of Lilith in the Bible.
Well, it comes from what's called Midrash.
It comes from a root, D-R-S-H, Darash.
It means to, I don't know, explicate, to expand upon, to investigate.
So what happened after Adam and Eve sinned?
Did they have sex again?
And they do have Cain and Abel and the ensuing stories.
And then there's a third son, Shate, who is the inheritor of his traits, his good traits and bad traits.
So there's a distinct lineage that is spelled out.
She slept with Adam after the sin of eating from the fruit of knowledge of good and evil.
So there's a story that built up around the biblical story that they were separated, Adam and Eve were separated for a long period.
So who was Adam sleeping with?
Well, it was expanded in the Midrash that there was a demoness named Lilith who slept with Adam for, I don't know, a couple hundred years.
And then Adam and Eve reconciled.