Eve the Savior
“This Yom Kippur Rabbi Harold Kushner’s little book How Good Do We Have to Be? reminds us that, while we do wrong, God doesn’t expect us to be perfect and neither should we. In an imaginative retelling of the story of Adam and Eve, Kushner presents it not as the fall, but as the birth of humanity as we were meant to be. God knew what we were. But He never abandoned that first couple or their descendants despite their flaws or ours. In this season, when Jewish worship is filled with reminders of our sins and our guilt, this book affirms our worth as human beings. There is a difference between guilt and shame. Guilt is healthy when we’ve done something wrong. Shame is destructive when it condemns us for what we are.”
Yeah, that’s exactly how I take it. God set up that test for them to pass it. Without having curiosity they couldn’t have survived in the real world outside of that little bubble called Eden. Eve was the intelligent one and pathed their way out of that lethargic place into adulthood. Eve was Evolution.
Thanks Eve.
Rabbi Harry Danziger on the Daily Beast Board
