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GENESIS — 3:13 said

GEN397 From here it is to be derived that one does not furnish a defense for an instigator [in this case, the serpent]. Which defense could have been furnished? “The words of the Master [God], and the words of the disciple [the serpent] – whose words should be heeded?  Naturally, the Master’s!  Sanhedrin 29a  [Author’s note: The snake could have said that it is not to blame, as when there is a contradiction between the statement of the teacher and the statement of the student, whose statement should one listen to?  One should listen to the statement of the teacher.  Since God instructed Adam and Eve not to eat from the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, Adam and Eve should have heeded God’s words and not those of the snake. Sefaria.org translation of Sanhedrin 29a] TEMIMAH-GEN 23

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GENESIS — 3:14 cursed

GEN401 The Rabbis taught: “All who set their eyes upon what is not theirs, what they desire is not given them, and what they possess is taken from them. For so we find with this primal serpent, who set his eyes upon what was not his.  What he desired was not given him, and what he possessed was taken from him.  The Holy One Blessed be He said: ‘I said: “Be king over every beast and animal” – and now: you are more accursed than any beast and any animal of the field. I said: “Walk upright” – and now: walk upon your belly.  I said that he should eat the food of men – and now: let him eat dust.  He said: ‘I shall kill Adam and Eve’ – and now: I shall place hatred between you and the woman” Sotah 9b TEMIMAH-GEN 23

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GENESIS — 4:7 crouches

GEN469 Rav said: “The evil inclination is like a fly that lies between the two doors of the heart, as it is written Ecclesiastes 10:1: ‘The flies of death, etc.’” Shmuel says: “It is like a wheat grain, as it is written: ‘Sin [chatath – similar to chitah (wheat grain)] lies at the door’”  Berachot 61a TEMIMAH-GEN 27

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