[Avodah] FRUITFUL QUESTION

[Alan Rubin]

> It's peculiar
>to the English-speaking world, and arises from the fact that "apple" used
>to be a generic term for all fruit

The idea that the fruit of the tree in Gan Eden was an apple is not
confined to the English speaking world.. The fruit is often shown as
an apple in European art. My understanding is that the idea comes from
the similarity of the Latin word for  apple malum to the word for
evil.

Alan Rubin