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• It is, in fact, the approach taken by Maimonides, the Rambam. Indeed, in his Guide to the Perplexed,
• Why would God want to withhold knowledge of good and evil from us? And the answer he gives is this: The tree didn’t give us an understanding of right and wrong when we had none before. Rather it transformed this understanding from one thing into another. It transformed our earlier understanding of right and wrong into something called a Knowledge o...
• Dust you are, and to the dust you shall return. (Gen. 3:18)
• The dust [that comprises the body] shall go back to the land, as it once was; and the spirit will return to the Lord who had imparted it…. (Eccl. 12:7)