The Blogs: Eating the Fruit: “Do Not Awaken Love Before It Desires” | Yael Chaya Miriam Gray

The Blogs: Eating the Fruit: “Do Not Awaken Love Before It Desires” | Yael Chaya Miriam Gray

Part I. “Eating The Fruit,” A Cryptic Euphemism For the First Sin

In the beginning, all was still one. The first human was a single androgynous being—male and female back to back—radiant as a lamp before the wind. The Torah calls them…

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