“To serve it and to keep it” in the scrutiny of bitter and sweet. We, too, have similar Mitzvot [commandments]. The pleasure of Shabbat [Sabbath] and the pleasure of Good Day, and abstention from insects and reptiles that one’s soul wants.

The serpent started with “Even though God said, ‘You shall not eat from all the trees of the garden,’” meaning he started a conversation with her, since the woman was not commanded by the Creator. “And the woman said to the serpent, ‘From the fruit of the trees of the garden we shall eat, and from the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God said, ‘You shall not eat of it or touch it lest you die.’’”

The serpent asked: How did she know that the tree of knowledge was forbidden? Perhaps all the fruits of the garden were forbidden for you? The woman’s replied, “You shall not touch lest you die.”

1) How did she know about the touching?

2) Why the doubt, “lest you die”?

We should interpret that the answer “lest you die” pertains to the touching, for there is none as wise as the experienced. The serpent’s reply, “You will not surely die, for God knows that on the day you eat of it your eyes will open and you will be as God, knowing good and evil.” The serpent’s argument was that it was foolish to think that God created something harmful in the world. Rather, all the bad comes only from the lower one, since only here the correction of bestowal is missing.

“On the day you eat of it,” meaning with the aim to bestow, “You will be as God, knowing good and evil,” meaning that just as it is sweet to the Creator, completely the same, so the good and bad will be to you, completely the same, if it is with the intention to bestow.

But the Creator did not inform you of this because He knows, meaning the Creator knows that if you pay attention and your eating is in Kedusha [holiness], your eyes will open to understand the grandeur of the matter by yourselves. “And the woman saw that the tree was good…”