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RASHI AND RAMBAN CALL THEIR NAME What Adam and Eve learned on eating the fruit PROBLEM:

If they were naked, why were the they not ashamed? No evil inclination why would modesty be needed Why would u need to cover up Eating the fruit Gained the evil inclination (yeser haraah) they only had an inclination to do good DIFFERENCE RAMBAN_ POWER TO CHOOSE Ramban: desire to have sex Originally instinct man did whatever was proper for him- innate robot Fruit: will and desire to chose a thing or its opposite i.e. good or badOriginally they didnt have the power or understanding to chose the difference so naturally they were good Barzilai lost the power of thought and desire uses same phrase Hadea)which means can I distinguish here the tree is called the tree of hadaat so we conclude that its the tree of knowledge of distinguishing between good and evil Originally Adam and Eves sexual relations were not desire but rather just coming together and procreating, that was the commandment : be fruitful and multiply Now he had the choice to do something right or wrong God can do something good or bad- but as for man is concerned its bad cause he has this will and desire to do humanly things God told him not to eat the fruit but they never knew exactly what was going to happen to them

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