tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post8101499780959096840..comments2023-11-03T01:13:22.719-07:00Comments on The Rabbi Is IN with Rabbi Rami: There is No Morality Without GodUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post-48111081955042080642007-07-09T10:19:00.000-07:002007-07-09T10:19:00.000-07:00The tree of knowledge of shame and fear. Sigh. I s...The tree of knowledge of shame and fear. Sigh. I suppose that's the tree that supplied Lucy with the boards for her makeshift psychiatric clinic in Peanuts. I've often read the expulsion as a metaphor for humanities coming to self-awareness and the birth of duality in consciousness. Good and Evil aside, the system the fruit teaches is one of binary logic. Good/bad, yes/no, me/not me. There is knowledge here, and danger. Shame and fear are the danger, but there is nothing in the system itself that necessitates this. Adam and Eve prior to the apple were naked, unashamed, and unaware. After the apple, they might have been naked, unahsamed, and awake. That they weren't is a human failing, but one that speaks to the need for humilty. We cannot hide from what is, nor can we hide from what we are. Adam hides behind a bush to fool God, and behind a fig leaf to fool himself. He wants to be as otherworldy (As Godlike?) as the genital-less angels, but he is flesh, clay--he is of the world. To be of the world and still face God, that is my hope.AaronHerschelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08886387346974535323noreply@blogger.com