Adam, Eve and the Elephant in the Room - Serpents of Desire, Part 1
by Rabbi David FohrmanWhy would God want to withhold a knowledge of good and evil from us?
Why would God want to withhold a knowledge of good and evil from us?
Mankind's undetermined nature, perched precariously between mortality and immortality.
The mystery of the walking, talking snake.
Discovering the key to the deeper layers of meaning beneath the narrative.
Forbidden Fruit and the assassination attempt.
Which Divine voice should you listen to? The voice of God that comes to you in words, or the voice of God that pulses inside you, that animates your very being?
Knowledge and the nature of good and evil.
The boxer named Desire.
Desire can confound our perception of the way things really are. A biblical case study.
Torah as the Spice of Life.
Even as God banished us from Eden, He bequeathed to us the tools we would need to make it in the new world of our own making.