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face="Times New Roman">No human being was aware of any need for salt, and
therefore could not have deduced by kal v'chomer that salt is
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face="Times New Roman">I previously responded that we have no idea as to what
Adam knew about the biology of plant life. If however you want to insist
that G-d did not reveal advanced science to Adam it still won’t matter. The
ignorance of the existance of a kal vechomer by say some am ho’oretz does not
make it any less operative. But your point then might be how did Adam know of
the heter if he was not aware of the kal vechomer – perhaps he was simply told
it was OK. (I assume that not every communication to Adam was recorded in the
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face="Times New Roman">On the issue of how much advanced knowledge was revealed
to Adam I get conflicting messages from ma’amarei chazal. His great intelligence
and knowledge is implied by his ability to name all the animals appropriately.
Yet another chazal AZ 8a implies great naiveté in Adam concerning the workings
of the world when he saw the days getting shorter and feared this was a
punishment for his sin but did not realize that this was a natural phenomenon.
The meforshim touch on this subject. The Ritva assumes Adam had “the wisdom of a
Malach” and asks how he could make such a mistake. “<SPAN
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sin and his affliction, he lost his ability to think logically.”
(</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV><A
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face="Times New Roman"> ). Others have a different approach.</FONT></DIV>
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