[Avodah] Question Sin of Adam vs. Kayin

[Zev Sero]

Ben Waxman wrote:
>>  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.

> Our need to work is not because we don't live in Gan Eden, it is because 
> the entire world was cursed. Was the world before the sin one in which 
> people would have had to work?

It's not clear to me; we weren't originally meant to live in this world,
so why would it need to be one of natural abundance?  Or were we always
intended to spread out from the Gan and live in this world, perhaps
making occasional pilgrimages to the Gan?

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