
The Art of Listening (Rabbi Sacks on Bereishit, Covenant & Conversation)
The Office of Rabbi Sacks
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Introduction
What exactly was the first sin? What was the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil? Is this kind of knowledge a bad thing such that it had to be forbidden and was only acquired through sin? Isn't knowing the difference between good and evil essential to being human? Why then did he forbid the fruit that produced it? These questions go so deep that they threaten to make the entire story incomprehensible.
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