tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post2705200538409802467..comments2024-03-28T21:21:02.777-04:00Comments on Divrei Chaim: making your own gan eden Chaim B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02231811394447584320noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-28437365444817391172018-10-10T20:03:02.382-04:002018-10-10T20:03:02.382-04:00"What made gan eden into gan eden is the fact..."What made gan eden into gan eden is the fact that adam ha'rishon knew that everything that was created there was done for his sake"<br /><br />vs man of Bereishis perek 1 who, although Rabbi Akiva declares him beloved as of 1:27 (Avos 3:18), is really no more than the most cunning (aw'rume) of creatures at that point: he is the product of a Hands-off Creator (Who makes the world only by commands, by remote control); thus Shabbos marks, at final say, the cessation of His labor rather than the completion of His work (2:3), for He will resume work, recreating the world in one day/one utterance (realizing the very possibility considered in Avos 5:1)-- gan eden will express d'moos (feminine) Elokim, man penetrated/cared for inwardly; d'moos from 1:26 that was left undone at 1:27-- why? because Elokim realized, after 1:25, that He would need to recreate man Hands-on* to fully Care for him, now that He Himself had named the animals! man at his worst could only fail to subdue** the less cunning creatures (1:28), while man, once it was he who named the animals*** (2:19-20), could cause their very extinction {or their corruption, as before the mabul}; Hashem-Elokim cared enough for adam ha'rishon to make the latter's actions really count****<br /><br />*thus the Shabbos of Devarim 5:15 relies on a strong hand<br /><br />**what in the world could it mean, at the time of pesukim 1:26,28, for man to subdue fish or birds? maybe we've a clue from Rachbah on B.K. 55a, who imagines a fish [or, let us say, a tethered flock of birds] pulling a wagon along a riverbank<br /><br />***even unto the underappreciated 'nachash', if we would indulge the comment above<br /><br />****adam at 5:3 [5:1 told(o)s = 2:4 toldos] begets beed'mooso k'tzalmo-- first his offspring is endowed with the capacity for reaching into reality's core, and then externally he exercises that capacity [first the child under his father's care acquires Torah, to later execute with halachic 'cunning' that which was learned]alonzo maccabihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13177738305527364094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-66323370377252551122018-10-04T07:37:42.745-04:002018-10-04T07:37:42.745-04:00"adam ha'rishon knew that everything that..."adam ha'rishon knew that everything that was created there was done for his sake"<br /><br />[knew that] almost everything. when looking for a helpmate while naming the animals, adam should have had the hava amina, opposite the nachash, that it was a (candidate) partner [after all, a speaking biped]; at this evanescent oversight the nachash took offense [on behalf of Hashem!], plotting perek 2 subterfuge from that moment on...<br /><br />Noach takes note: just as Hashem can take care, even in passing, to keep up our hopes for every comfort, so His servant will never overlook the least possibility to do avoda in return, to act like the bnei Elokim who never miss a chance for seizing their pleasure and having their way; he, Noach ben Lemech, would become so familiar with every (positive*) mitzvah that he'd seize it leimore: 'etzem mei'at'tza'mi u'basar meeb'saree!' [providing thus a model for future bnei Elokim, am Yisrael]<br /><br />*as for negative mitzvot, Noach (may have) had this further bond to gan eden: just as 9:1-3 is an updated version of 1:28, so 9:4 is a version of 2:17, but without any mention of schar or onesh-- did Noach and clan have a unique opportunity, through obedience to 9:4, to recover the (implied) immortality that Adam and Chava lost?? [alas, mos ta'moos remains the order of the day]<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />alonzo maccabihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13177738305527364094noreply@blogger.com