Let’s talk about Lilith’s birth. Both the Zohar and the Treatise of the Left Emanation discuss her origin and list her as a wife/consort of Samael so we’ll focus on those myths. The Treatise of the Left Emanation is a Kabbalistic text attributed to Rabbi Isaac ha-Kohen. In this text, Lilith is not only the wife of Samael, but she and Samael “were born as one, similar to the form of Adam and Eve who were also born as one, reflecting what is above.” What’s meant by this is that Adam and Eve and Samael and Lilith were born with each couple sharing one androgynous form before being separated. Samael and Lilith are then united in unholy matrimony with the help of Tanin'iver (“Blind Serpent”) God, of course, can’t just let these two lovebirds go around reproducing so he castrates Samael. This part appears to draw heavily on the myth of the male and female Leviathans who were kept from reproducing because their offspring would destroy the world. In the Zohar, as in the Treatise of Left Emanation, Lilith is born conjoined with Samael. It’s clear in this text that God was not directly involved with her creation. Instead, she and Samael come either from the ‘Great Supernal Abyss’ or from the “dregs of the wine.” Anthropologist Raphael Patai describes this best. He says the dregs of the wine refers to “Gevura or Din, the "Power" of God, chiefly manifested as the power of stern judgment and punishment, one of the ten Sefiroth or mystical attributes of God. This stern, punitive aspect of God has, at its lowest manifestation, some affinity with the realm of evil which is referred to as "the dregs of the wine," and it is out of this that Lilith emerged together with Samael.”