וַיִּקְרָ֧א הָֽאָדָ֛ם שֵׁ֥ם אִשְׁתּ֖וֹ חַוָּ֑ה כִּ֛י הִ֥וא הָֽיְתָ֖ה אֵ֥ם כָּל־חָֽי׃
און דער מענטש האָט גערופֿן דעם נאָמען פֿון זײַן װײַב חַוָה, װײַל זי איז געװען די מוטער פֿון אַלעם לעבעדיקן.
Midrash Tanchuma Buber
(Deut. 1:1:) THESE ARE THE WORDS THAT MOSES SPOKE. This text is related (to Is. 35:6): THEN THE LAME SHALL LEAP LIKE A HART, AND THE TONGUE OF THE DUMB SHALL SHOUT FOR JOY. Come and see.1Tanh., Deut. 1:2. When the Holy One said to MOSES (in Exod. 3:10): I WILL SEND YOU UNTO PHARAOH, Moses said to him: You are doing me an injustice.2Gk.: bia. (Exod. 4:10): I AM NOT A MAN OF WORDS. He said to him: Seventy languages are spoken in Pharaoh's palace.3Palterin. Gk.: praitorion; Lat. praetorium. Thus if an embassy4Gk.: presbeuterion. comes from another place, they may speak with them in their own language. When I go on your mission, they will examine me, asking whether I am a representative of the Omnipresent. Then it will be revealed to them that I do not know how to converse with them. Will they not laugh at me, saying: Look at the agent of the one who created the world and all its languages! Does he not know how to listen and reply? See here, something is wrong!5Gk.: bia. (Exod. 4:10:) I AM NOT A MAN OF WORDS. (Exod. 6:12:) {SEE} [FOR] I HAVE UNCIRCUMCISED LIPS (i.e., a speech impediment). The Holy One said to him: But look at the first Adam. Since no creature taught him, where did he <come to> know seventy languages? It is so stated: AND HE RECITED NAMES FOR THEM.6The citation is not found in Scripture. Cf. Gen. 2:20: AND ADAM RECITED NAMES FOR ALL CATTLE…., a reading which what follows assumes. The midrash is also assuming that the beasts already had names, which Adam merely recited. "A name for every beast" is not written here but: NAMES (in the plural). [Who gave Adam a mouth that would recite names, <i.e.,> a name for each and every <beast> in seventy languages?] The mouth that said (in Exod. 4:10): I AM NOT A MAN OF WORDS, <then> said (in Deut. 1:1): THESE ARE THE WORDS. The prophet also cries out and says (in Is. 35:6): THEN THE LAME SHALL LEAP LIKE A HART, AND THE TONGUE OF THE DUMB SHALL SHOUT FOR JOY. Why? (Ibid., cont.:) BECAUSE WATERS SHALL BREAK FORTH IN THE WILDERNESS AND STREAMS IN THE DESERT. It is therefore stated (in Deut. 1:1): THESE ARE THE WORDS.
Bereshit Rabbah
“The man called the name of his wife Eve [Ḥava], because she was the mother of all living [ḥai]” (Genesis 3:20).
“The man called the name of his wife Eve [Ḥava], because she was the mother of all living [ḥai]” (Genesis 3:20). She was given to him to enliven him, but she gave him counsel like a serpent [ḥivya]. Another matter, Ḥava – Adam the first man told [ḥiva] her how many generations she had caused to perish. Rabbi Aḥa said: [Adam said:] The serpent was your serpent and you were Adam’s serpent [ḥivya].49The serpent was the cause of your downfall, and you, in turn, were the cause of Adam’s downfall.
“Because she was the mother [em] of all living” – Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar said: With [im] all life.50”Life” referring to a comfortable standard of living. It is taught: If [someone’s husband] becomes wealthy she ascends with him,51If a husband becomes wealthy and hires servants, his wife is excused from her domestic duties. She thus ascends in status, as at the time of her marriage she had been required to perform them. but if he becomes poor she does not descend with him.52If a husband was rich at first, able to hire servants, thus exempting his wife from household chores, and then he becomes poor and unable to afford domestic help, his wife nevertheless remains excused from household chores, and does not descend from her original status.
Rabbi Simon said: “Mother of all living” – the mother of all living beings, as Rabbi Simon said: All one hundred and thirty years that Eve was estranged from Adam, the male spirits53Demons. would be aroused by her and she would bear offspring from them, and the female spirits would be aroused by Adam and would bear offspring from him. That is what is written: “Who, when he commits iniquity, I will rebuke him with the staff of men and with the afflictions of the children of man [adam]” 54With punishments inflicted by malevolent spirits, described here as “children of Adam.” (II Samuel 7:14); the children of Adam the first man.
There is one opinion that says that house spirits55Malevolent spirits that inhabit one’s house. are better [for the resident of the house], because they grow up with him. And there is an opinion that says that they are worse, because they are intimately familiar with his sinful thoughts. Spirits of the field – there is an opinion that says they are better for a person, because they are not intimately familiar with his sinful thoughts. And there is an opinion that says that they are worse, because they did not grow up with him.
“The man called the name of his wife Eve [Ḥava], because she was the mother of all living [ḥai]” (Genesis 3:20). She was given to him to enliven him, but she gave him counsel like a serpent [ḥivya]. Another matter, Ḥava – Adam the first man told [ḥiva] her how many generations she had caused to perish. Rabbi Aḥa said: [Adam said:] The serpent was your serpent and you were Adam’s serpent [ḥivya].49The serpent was the cause of your downfall, and you, in turn, were the cause of Adam’s downfall.
“Because she was the mother [em] of all living” – Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar said: With [im] all life.50”Life” referring to a comfortable standard of living. It is taught: If [someone’s husband] becomes wealthy she ascends with him,51If a husband becomes wealthy and hires servants, his wife is excused from her domestic duties. She thus ascends in status, as at the time of her marriage she had been required to perform them. but if he becomes poor she does not descend with him.52If a husband was rich at first, able to hire servants, thus exempting his wife from household chores, and then he becomes poor and unable to afford domestic help, his wife nevertheless remains excused from household chores, and does not descend from her original status.
Rabbi Simon said: “Mother of all living” – the mother of all living beings, as Rabbi Simon said: All one hundred and thirty years that Eve was estranged from Adam, the male spirits53Demons. would be aroused by her and she would bear offspring from them, and the female spirits would be aroused by Adam and would bear offspring from him. That is what is written: “Who, when he commits iniquity, I will rebuke him with the staff of men and with the afflictions of the children of man [adam]” 54With punishments inflicted by malevolent spirits, described here as “children of Adam.” (II Samuel 7:14); the children of Adam the first man.
There is one opinion that says that house spirits55Malevolent spirits that inhabit one’s house. are better [for the resident of the house], because they grow up with him. And there is an opinion that says that they are worse, because they are intimately familiar with his sinful thoughts. Spirits of the field – there is an opinion that says they are better for a person, because they are not intimately familiar with his sinful thoughts. And there is an opinion that says that they are worse, because they did not grow up with him.
Aggadat Bereshit
Chapter (78) 79: Torah [1] "And Judah he sent before him unto Joseph" (Genesis 46:28). As it is said in scriptures: "A small city (Ecclesiastes 9:14), this is the Garden of Eden. And there are few people in it (Ecclesiastes 9:14), these are Adam and Eve. And a great king came to it (Ecclesiastes 9:14), this is the serpent. And he built great fortifications on it (Ecclesiastes 9:14), because God knows, etc. (Genesis 3:5). And a poor and wise man was found in it (Ecclesiastes 9:15), this is Adam, as it is said 'And the man called his wife's name Eve' etc. (Genesis 3:20). And if he had been in the Garden of Eden when the serpent deceived Eve, they would not have eaten from the tree. And he saved her (Ecclesiastes 9:15), 'the woman whom you gave to be with me' etc. and ate (Genesis 3:12), for if he had not confessed to eating, God would have destroyed the Garden of Eden for their sake. But because he confessed, he was expelled from the Garden of Eden, as it is said 'And he drove out and completed' (Ecclesiastes 9:15). And Adam did not remember (Ecclesiastes 9:15), God said 'Adam did not remember, but I remember' as it is said 'And the Lord God called to the man' etc. (Genesis 3:9)."