<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><i><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">R' Ari wrote:</span></div>Actually, while Adam doesn't confess, unlike, say Kayin, he actually<br>feels shame. I would say that there was charata, just no vidui. But,<br>given the magnitude of the sin, that may have been a most major<br>lacuna</i>.<div><br></div><div>What I find interesting is that we don't believe in "original sin" and yet, the <i>cheit eitz hadaas </i>WAS the <b>original</b>, first sin.</div><div>We all have suffered its consequences until this very day. </div><div>It seems to me that since Adam Harishon and Chava had no precedent in history (obviously) about sin, how could they</div><div>really comprehend the nature of sin, and its gravity, never having even seen another case nor experienced anything like it.</div><div>In addition, the mitzvah of not eating from the tree was a <i>chok</i>. It would seem a pretty difficult way to begin life by being given</div><div>a <i>chok</i> without ever having the slightest idea of a rational mitzvah or a mishpat.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyone agree?</div><div><br></div><div>ri</div><div><br></div></body></html>