{"id":34072,"date":"2018-07-16T14:34:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T11:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=34072"},"modified":"2022-02-07T16:50:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T14:50:36","slug":"the-choice-to-choose-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-choice-to-choose-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"The Choice to Choose Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[376],"acf":{"old_id":"34072","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33934,"related_cahpter":"3","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"","content":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For many years I have been thinking to myself about the sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. As the years passed, the story became more enigmatic, and what was previously understood became difficult.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the very moment when God said to His newly created humans, &#8220;Of every tree of the garden you are free to eat; but as for the tree of knowledge of good and evil, you must not eat of it\u201d (Genesis 2:17), the seeds of disobedience had already been planted. Why then did God put the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden if He did not want them to eat from it? And why, in the first place, is the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil forbidden to eat from? Our education is predicated on the belief that that knowledge of good and evil is the essence of what it means to be created in the &#8220;image of God.\u201d Did God create a human being who could not choose between good and evil and want him to stay like that? These reflections and others bring me to read the story differently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I read it as the story of the human race\u2019s adolescence, which is analogous to the story of an individual&#8217;s adolescence. Every first-time parent knows that the stage in which the child says \u201cno\u201d to his parents is a necessary stage in the child\u2019s development. It is a stage when children learn that they are an entity in and of themselves and not an extension of their mother or their parents. Indeed, this stage can be annoying for parents, but it is a very important stage for the proper development of a person\u2019s independence and cannot be skipped. The child learns by refusing the boundaries of the ego and distinguishing himself in his choices and wishes. The option that any person has to obey or violate a law is what makes him a being with choice, and that is &#8220;the superiority of humans&#8221; (Ecclesiastes 3:19) over animals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, if there is a fault in Eve&#8217;s behavior, it is mainly in avoiding responsibility, by placing the blame on the serpent. Taking the fruit from the forbidden tree is not negative, for it is this action that turned Eve and her husband into &#8220;knowing good and evil\u201d (Genesis 3:5). In other words, they realize the human potential inherent in their ability to decide. 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