[Avodah] Question

[Richard Wolberg]

rw wrote:
: Your response sounds logical but there is only one problem with that.
: The first sin was bein adam laMakom.
: The sin of murder was bein adam l'chaveiro.
: So there are two categories of sin here.
: Therefore, since murder was the first sin of the second category, your
: argument is not as strong.

R' Micha wrote:
I am not as sure. Is the nature of the defiance of G-d's law significant
enough to turn Qayin's sin into the first of a whole new category?

Chavah and Adam showed themselves and the rest of history since that the
entire concept of defiance is possible. I don't see a parallel "just"
because the aveirah is in a different domain.

Follow up response:
I'm not clear what you are saying. What do you mean that Qayin's sin  
was defiance
of G-d's law when there was no mitzvah yet given for Lo tirtzach?
Secondly, you write that you "don't see a parallel." I didn't make a  
parallel; you did.
My point was that the first sin and Qayin's sin was NOT parallel,  
l'hefech.
ri