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Conventional wisdom holds that Man should ideally have lived life in the Garden, the idyllic place in which Man is at harmony with his environment. We generally assume that man and woman eating from the Tree of Knowledge was a sin and that the punishment was exile, hard work and the pain of childbirth. Yet, at no point in the text are the words "sin" "rebellion" "violation" nor "punishment" used. A broader look at the entire story in Beresheet suggests a different orientation in which life in the garden was intended to be temporary. In this shiur, a too-brief synopsis of a shiur given by R. Elhanan Samet in honor of Kovy Etshalom's Bar-Mitzvah in Alon Shvut (Shabbat Beresheet 5778), another perspective on Eden is suggested.
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