On What it means to be truly Alive and the Impossibility of reading Torah Literally
Last week we began reading the Torah anew with the book of Genesis. One of the more well known stories from this book is G-d's direction to Adam that he may eat of anything in the garden except for the Tree of Knowledge, because if he eats of that one, "on that very day, you will die" (Genesis 2:17). Like most of us when we're told not to do something, he goes ahead and does it anyway. However, he does not actually die, and therefore right in the very beginning of our Sacred