<div dir="ltr">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?<div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>Hear d a shiur that this is one of the most difficult stories in chumash. Some of the questions</div><div>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.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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