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432) “And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, ‘From any tree of the garden you may eat.’” A command is nothing but idol worship. “The Lord” is the blessing of the Creator; “God” is the judges. “The man” is bloodshed; “Saying” is incest. A command is nothing but idol worship means that anywhere where it is said “Command,” it implies prohibition of idol worship. Here, too, the word indicates “Commanded” means He forbade him to idol worship.
Here Adam HaRishon was commanded seven Mitzvot [commandments]. “Commanded” is idol worship; “The Lord” is the prohibition of the blessing of the Creator; “God” is the judges, who sentence justly; “The man” is the prohibition on bloodshed; “Saying” is the prohibition on incest. “From any tree of the garden,” and not what is stolen, “You may eat,” and not an organ from an animal.
“From any tree of the garden you may eat” indicates that He permitted him to eat everything, even the tree of knowledge, but he should eat them in a unification, and the tree of knowledge was not in unification with the rest of the trees of the garden.
433) We see that Abraham ate from the tree of knowledge, and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets ate from the tree of knowledge, yet they lived. But the reason is that that tree, the tree of knowledge, is the tree of death. Anyone who takes it in itself alone dies because he has taken the potion of death. The meaning of the tree of knowledge is the Nukva de ZA. We should always unify her with the rest of the trees of the garden, the Sefirot de ZA, and then we can eat and receive the abundance from her, who is the tree of knowledge.
This is the manner in which Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and all the prophets ate from her. But one who does not unify the Nukva with ZA her husband, but extends from her herself alone, then she is the potion of death, as it is written, “For in the day that you eat from it you will surely die,” meaning from her alone because he separates and cuts the plantations, separating the Creator from His Divinity. This is why his sentence is death.
434) Adam HaRishon was pulling on his foreskin, separating the holy covenant, Yesod de ZA, from his place and portion, from Divinity. Hence, he was certainly pulling on the foreskin, leaving the holy covenant, the unification of the Creator and His Divinity. He clung to the foreskin, the Klipa, which separates the Creator from His Divinity, and was tempted by the words of the serpent.
435) “And from the fruit of the tree … ‘You shall not eat from it’ … lest you die.” “From the fruit of the tree” is the woman, Nukva de ZA. “You shall not eat from it” because it is written, “And her legs go down to death,” meaning that the legs of the Nukva descend to the Klipot, where there is death, meaning if he extends abundance only from her when she is not in Zivug with her husband.
It cannot be said that the tree of knowledge is the Sitra Achra and is not the Nukva de Kedusha because there are fruits in the Nukva de ZA and it can be said about her, “And from the fruit of the tree.” But in the Sitra Achra there are no fruits because another god is sterile and does not bear fruit. So how does the text say about it, “And from the tree of the garden”? Indeed, it is written, “On the day when you eat from it you will surely die.” This is why the tree is called “the tree of death,” although it is the Nukva de Kedusha, as it is written, “And her legs go down to death,” even though she herself is life and Kedusha.
436) That tree, the tree of knowledge, was watered from above. It grew and was glad, as it is written, “And a river comes out of Eden to water the garden.” “The garden” means Nukva de ZA. That river, Bina, enters the Nukva and waters her, giving her Mochin de Gadlut, and everything becomes one. Through these Mochin, ZA and Nukva became one because from there down, below Nukva de ZA, there is already separation and they cannot receive those Mochin, as it is written, “And from there it parted.” It is so because below the garden it is already separated and is not entirely Godliness, since NR de BYA below the Nukva are not Godliness.
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