Lilith

According to Jewish folklore, Adam had a wife before Eve. Her name was Lilith which means night.

Lilith refused to be Adam’s wife, and rejected the fact that men and women are different . She revolted against God , and as a punishment for her revolt, she was thrown out of the Garden of Eden. She took revenge on God, men, women, and the world by killing new born babies which turned her into a demon that only lived to destroy.

Lilith’s view of men, women, and the world is no different from that of the  radical feminists. She is only their symbol.

In his book “The Invisible Hand”, Elmessiri states that feminism is not a question of rights and it’s not a movement that calls for justice and women’s human rights. But it's a movement that bases its views on the notion  that history is only an expression of male dominance over female. This dominance happened after battles between males and females  when societies, characterized by peace and harmony, were ruled by females . But ever since males dominated, the world has been based on fighting and wars. Therefore, everything must return to what it was like . And that’s why war has been declared on men. Here, feminism is like Zionism in its view. For the Zionists, everything must return to what it was like. Jews must return to their homeland for they are the chosen people, the superiors, so nothing is found wrong with killing Arabs and occupying their lands!!

The author continues and says that the underlying view of feminism originates from an Immanentistic world outlook that reduces the whole universe to one level.At this level, God, nature, man, history are all integrated into a single entity, in an attempt to create a new world where boundaries are leveled with the locus, and where there is no male and female.Feminism rejects the differences between men and women, and distributing roles. So men become fathers and mothers, and women become fathers and mothers. This even extends to feelings. A man’s feelings must not be different from a woman’s.

But this immanentistic world view always fails to be right and possible. And as a result of its failure , a sharp dualism emerges that completely isolates the female from the male considering that what a female feels cannot be felt by a male, and that the historical experience of females is completely different from that of the males. Perhaps that’s why Men from Mars Women from Venus came into existence?

Here, we see a development in the issue of male-female relationship. From equalizing between men and women to completely isolating the female from the male. And when we get to this stage, we can’t speak of a reform program but rather of a destructive one in which the female male duality disappears, and the distinction becomes impossible. At this stage, feminism is coherent with other similar immanentistic movements like the lesbian movement ,for they all assume what is absolute does not transcend matter but it dwells in it. So everything to feminists is female and female is everything.


Elmessiri's Views on Immanence