Legends show her to be the magically beautiful
first woman to share paradise with Adam, a female "made by god"
in a manner similar to how the "Lord" "made" the first male.
Here, then, she is the original first woman, an independent and free virgin who would not submit to Adam's attempts at sexual domination. After leaving both the first male and the prison of paradise she was replaced by a less independent and less equal Eve, a woman not "made" from the Earth but from a rib of the man Adam.
It is said that Lilith is but one of twenty names by which that first woman was known and each name is supposed to contain a "secret of sexual mysticism".
These "secrets" most likely represent the erotic teachings and sexual techniques that were taught to initiates and worshippers in the temples of Inanna, Ishtar and Astarte ~ teachings and practices that threatened the new patriarchal leaders and their attempts to make woman into a dependent, monogamous servant of their households.
"There is no doubt", says Ean Begg, that the "Queen of Sheeba in the cabbala, the Zohar and Arabic legends" is identical with the Near Eastern goddess Lilith, who "is also associated with the concubine of Abraham, Hagar 'the Egyptian', whose son Ishmael, having been begotten on the Black stone of the Ka'bah, became the ancestor of the Arab peoples.

Through the legends about Lilith, she represents female beauty, sexual pride and freedom, independence, free thought, mobility of body, mind and spirit, the freedom to dream. The fact that she was also often written about as a 'wind-storm' is a positive for me, not a negative. Wind indicates movement, and might have simply represented her as a force to be reckoned with; today, it might symbolize someone who is 'a mover and a shaker'. In fact, 'Ruach', the Hebrew word for 'wind' also means spirit, which could mean the breath of life itself. Clearly the difference in our perception of Lilith and of ourselves as women is shaped by textual analysis and interpretation. It is easy to see how differently we might view women if women had been regarded for millennia as the very breath of life rather than as the instigators of sin, or as 'filth and sediment' as the medieval Kabbalists taught.