[Avodah] Gan Eden

[Eli Turkel via Avodah]

How (when?) did the phrase Gan Eden which appears in Bersehit as a physical
place get transformed to a place for the sould after death?

At the end of the story G-d places cherubin to protect (?) the way to the
garden. While most commentaries assume this means to prevent people RSRH
and Kafka say it means to show the way to the garden. Kafka asks why if G-d
didnt want people going there why not just destroy the place rather than
keeping it so nobody can get there?

Hear d a shiur that this is one of the most difficult stories in chumash.
Some of the questions
where was Adam, why did the story start with Eve and not Adam, the story
implies that Adam and Eve were alive before G-d created the garden - where
were they? What does "etz chaim" mean . Was man really meant to live
forever, sometimes that can bea curse. How about Adam's descendants were
they supposed to live forever also - otal polulation of the globe from then
until now is too immense for the globe etc.

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Eli Turkel
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