{"id":14405,"date":"2026-01-09T22:25:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&p=14405"},"modified":"2026-01-09T22:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:25:52","slug":"two-kinds-of-scrutinies","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/two-kinds-of-scrutinies\/","title":{"rendered":"852. Two Kinds of Scrutinies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two kinds of scrutinies are found in the human species: bitter and sweet, and true and false.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to the sin, Adam HaRishon<\/em> was in the scrutiny of bitter and sweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo serve it and to keep it\u201d in the scrutiny of bitter and sweet. We, too, have similar Mitzvot<\/em> [commandments]. The pleasure of Shabbat [Sabbath] and the pleasure of Good Day, and abstention from insects and reptiles that one\u2019s soul wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The serpent started with \u201cEven though God said, \u2018You shall not eat from all the trees of the garden,\u2019\u201d meaning he started a conversation with her, since the woman was not commanded by the Creator. \u201cAnd the woman said to the serpent, \u2018From 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, \u2018You shall not eat of it or touch it lest you die.\u2019\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s replied, \u201cYou shall not touch lest you die.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) How did she know about the touching?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) Why the doubt, \u201clest you die\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We should interpret that the answer \u201clest you die\u201d pertains to the touching, for there is none as wise as the experienced. The serpent\u2019s reply, \u201cYou 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.\u201d The serpent\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn the day you eat of it,\u201d meaning with the aim to bestow, \u201cYou will be as God, knowing good and evil,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em> [holiness], your eyes will open to understand the grandeur of the matter by yourselves. \u201cAnd the woman saw that the tree was good\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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