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Rabbi Gordon - Bereishit: 1st Portion

Part 3

By Yehoshua B. Gordon


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Yehoshua B. Gordon
Rabbi Yehoshua Gordon is director of Chabad of the Valley in Tarzana, Ca.

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Posted: Oct 23, 2011
Rebellious Trees?
I'm enjoying this series very much! Thank you for making it available.

I must ask...surely you aren't literally saying that the trees were to taste like their fruit which accounts for the earth being cursed (& that in olam haba trees will taste like their fruit), are you?

Bereshit 3 says it was man's rebellion that caused the earth to be cursed, not rebellious trees. "'Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying: Thou shalt not eat of it; cursed is the ground for thy sake; "

Nature doesn't have a free will. It must do everything G-d instructs it to do (Yov, Mishlei...). Trees do differ in "kind" & each tree does in fact produce after it's own "kind" of tree, just as plants to. They weren't instructed to taste like the fruit they produced any more than a tomato plant was to taste like a tomato. Logic says that would spell instant disaster as the tree or plant itself would be eaten & become extinct, no?
Posted By Anonymous, Hayes

Posted: July 21, 2010
Sun and Moon
This was a tender point for me. I have not thought of the moon representative of me and the Sun representative of G-d. This representation is something for me to ponder deeply. Thank you.
Posted By Anonymous, taipei, taiwan



 

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