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The table below presents
two contradictory verses/verselets.
Both verses/verselets talk about
awarenesses of Adam and Eve after they had sinned.
The underlined words highlight the contradiction.
One verse says
they saw the tree
while the other verse says
their eyes were [first]opened.
Which is it?
Did they see the tree first or were their eyes first opened
after they ate from the tree.
Rashi simply resolves this using the
2 aspects
method:
They physically saw the tree; they ate from
her fruit and then their spiritual eyes were
opened and they became aware that they were naked.
Summary
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Verse / Source
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Text of verse / Source
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They (physically) saw
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Gn03-06:07a
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And the woman [physically] saw that the tree was good for food,
- and that it was pleasant to the eyes,
- and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her; and he ate.
- And the [intellectual] eyes of them both were opened, and
- they became aware that they were naked;
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Their spiritual eyes were opened
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Gn03-07a
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And the woman [physically] saw that the tree was good for food,
- and that it was pleasant to the eyes,
- and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her; and he ate.
- And the [intellectual] eyes of them both were opened, and
- they became aware that they were naked;
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Resolution:
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2 Aspects
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They physically saw the tree; they ate from
her fruit and then their spiritual eyes were
opened and they became aware that they were naked.
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Advanced Rashi:
Recall that the classical way to resolve a contradiction between two verses
is to find a third verse. In this case Rashi takes the end of Gn03-11 which
states they became aware that they were naked as proving that the
previous phrase their eyes were opened refers to spiritual eyes, not
physical eyes. However, as we have pointed out many times, a third
verse pointing to the resolution is not always present and consequently the resolution
of the contradiction must sometimes be through logic alone.
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