[Avodah] Question Sin of Adam vs. Kayin

[Zev Sero]

Cantor Wolberg wrote:

>> You missed the whole point. I'm not speaking about genetics. Everyone
>> inherits genes. I'm speaking of the punishment specifically given to them
>> for which woman was made to suffer childbirth pain and man was made to
>> have to labor by the sweat of his brow. That's not genetics.

Painful childbirth certainly is genetics.  As for having to grow our
food rather than the whole world being a tropical paradise where we
can just pick it off the trees, that's a function of our no longer
living in Gan Eden.  No, it's not genetic, but nor is it a punishment,
any more than, when an illegal immigrant is deported back to Mexico,
and as a result his future children are born there rather than here,
they can be said to have been "punished".  We are citizens of this
world, because our ancestors were deported here.


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