I was thinking about Adam and Chava tonight, because today in Rabbi Gersten's Bereishet class we talked about Day 6 of Creation, and what it means to be created B'tzelem Elokim. As I was thinking about Adam and Chava, my mind wandered to the day we discussed the fact that before they ate from the Tree of Knowledge, they knew things but did not impart value, whereas after they ate from the tree they knew things and put values on it. For example, before they ate from the tree, the fact that it was raining wasn't bad or good- it was simply raining. After they ate from the tree, the fact that it was raining might be annoying or good.
Anyways, I was wondering: If they didn't impart value on what they knew, then did the fact that they knew G-d created the world really mean anything? That is to say, they knew G-d was G-d and created the world, but they wouldn't have given value to that statement. Did this perhaps effect Adam and Chava's choice to disobey Hashem and eat from the tree? Or should it have prevented them?
Also: Why was it that G-d wanted them to not impart value? Why were they created this way?
This is a really interesting thought. I do not think that they didn't put any value to anything, especially the fact that God created the world. I just think that with things like being naked, they did not seem to care because it wasn't something important. It was more of something physical, which was not something that they were worried about. They seem to be more spiritual, and they definitely recognized the hierarchy that God put in place in the beginning. So, this must mean that they recognized that God creating the world was a good thing and that they must respect Him. When they sinned, they recognized that there was "bad" in the world and gave into their desires, but before that, they probably only saw the good.
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