The sin of the Tree of Knowledge gave both Adam and Eve their own independent drives and personalities, and thereby fractured the once united world. In this ‘post-Sin’ world, ...

The concepts of good and evil were unknown to Adam and Eve before the Sin of the Tree of Knowledge (Ḥet Eitz HaDa’at). It was precisely this knowledge that they acquired by eating the ...

By eating from the Tree of Knowledge, Adam and Eve acquired the knowledge of good (tov) and bad (rah). What was so terrible about them acquiring this knowledge that they deserved capital punishment?

Tree of Knowledge. The tree of knowledge is a biblical story. God having created the Garden of Eden forbids Adam and Eve to eat from the fruit of the tree of knowledge. The fact that Eve and Adam ate ...

Upon hearing the voice of God, Adam and Eve hid their nakedness among the trees. Adam blamed both Eve and God: “The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat ...

By arousing Adam and Eve's curiosity, it led them away from faith, that is, from trust in God: From obvious and natural faith (like shameless nakedness), they moved on to reasoning, seeking ...

As Sunday school teaches it, Adam and Eve could live in harmony with God in the Garden of Eden as long as they didn’t eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and from the Tree of Life.

Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, giving humanity some sense of self-awareness, justice and, ideally, care for the poor and oppressed.

At stake in Adam and Eve’s transgression in the Garden is the knowledge of good and evil, which embodies power. When it comes to that, she’s trouble, and he’s almost without fault.