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S1 Ep. 4: Beyond the Garden Walls

A Book Like No Other

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This holiday uncovered the deeper ideas Perm has to offer. Rabbi Foreman's been building a thought-provoking theory that the two special trees in the garden might in fact have been one and the same. The tree, like the Torah, was meant to be a tool for connecting with God. That's where his divine knowledge of good and evil lay. Ada-Munhava went for the fruit first, and seeing their lust for power, God got worried that the tree itself was next. So God kicked us out, and we lost access to everything, tree and fruit.

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