"The Fig from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is widely eaten and known throughout Turkey, Washington, Oregon, California, Texas, South Carolina, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Georgia in the United States of America, Durango, Nuevo León, and Coahuila in North-Eastern Mexico, Peru, Chile, Argentina, South-Western British Columbia in Canada, London, England, South Africa, Australia, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northern India."
“[God] gets enjoyment from the color of a fruit. [God] also gets enjoyment from the smell of a fruit. He told Adam, ‘there are two trees that you don’t go near: one is the Tree of Life and one is the Tree of Knowledge {Adam didn’t go anywhere near the Tree of Life: that was closely guarded}.’ Contextually, for a reward to be logical, you need Free Choice. The same goes for punishment. I can’t be punished for there being the slightest of coercion, so [God] has to maintain the perfect balance of Good and Evil throughout the world; throughout the universe because if the balance is not perfect, then the entire concept of Free Choice is Topsy Turvy; it makes no sense. We’re all here to Choose. Like the [Bible] says, ‘you shall choose Life’: in this world everything, every single molecule of oxygen we breathe has the power of good and the power of bad. If you miss one molecule of oxygen: the heir can kill you.” ~ Rabbi Lazer Brody
“the angels relate to knowledge of evil in a purely abstract, clinical way. This knowledge cannot excite angels with any desire for evil because they do not possess evil within themselves at all. In contrast, man’s Evil Inclination causes his very knowledge of evil in the world to affect him and excite him, and it may well bring him to stray after it.” ~ Bereshis 3:5.
