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GENESIS | 2:25 shame — GEN352 ... the blessed Lord is “of eyes too pure ...

GEN352 ... the blessed Lord is “of eyes too pure to behold evil” Habakkuk 1:13, and did not make anything defective or shameful.  It is He who created man and woman and He created all their organs and prepared them according to their functions, and made nothing disgraceful.  The clearest evidence for this is that in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve went about undressed and they were not ashamed [this verse]. All this took place before they sinned, while their minds were fixed on pure thoughts and their intentions were only for the sake of Heaven.  Therefore, their sex organs were, for them, no different from eyes or hands or other organs.  But when they strayed after physical pleasures and no longer intended their actions for the sake of Heaven, then “they knew they were naked” Genesis 3:7.  This should be understood as meaning that just as hands, when they write the scroll of Torah, are considered honorable and praiseworthy and exalted, but when they steal or otherwise indulge in dishonorable acts are regarded as ugly—so was it with the organs of generation of Adam and Eve: before they sinned it was one way, after they sinned quite different.  Just as we ascribe honor and praise to any organ when it serves to do good, and shame and ugliness when it is the instrument of evil, so was it with regard to the first man’s sexual apparatus. Accordingly, the ways of the Lord are all just and pure and clean. What is obscene is the result of man’s wrongful actions.  GOODSOC 105-6

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