Adam & Eve – The Ten Commandments Project

Forbidden Fruit? Ki Tavo

Two women carry a fruit basket while villagers celebrate in a rural valley.

Deuteronomy’s Garden of Eden connection is undeniable. The Torah’s beginning and ending theologically converge in Ki Tavo’s fruit-filled moment. A particular Ki Tavo commandment addresses an ultimate Torah issue. It brings a greater understanding of God’s role with humanity. In the end, Ki Tavo breathes new understanding into the Tree of Knowledge of Good andContinue reading “Forbidden Fruit? Ki Tavo”

Consequences: Shemini

Oxen pull a wooden cart carrying the golden Ark of the Covenant through a desert landscape.

Utopian myths were shattered with Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden. A Genesis passage best explains the real world’s realities: “…[t]he ground is cursed on your account. You’ll eat from it with suffering all the days of your life. And it will grow thorn and thistle at you, and you’ll eat theContinue reading “Consequences: Shemini”