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Torah Book & Portion, Book of Genesis, Bereishit (Genesis 1:1-6:8), Source Book Keys, ROSNER-BLEICH

GENESIS | 3:19 sweat — GEN422 Before Adam sinned it was not necessary fo...

GEN422 Before Adam sinned it was not necessary for him to till the soil. “With the sweat of your face will you eat bread” [this verse] is indeed a curse, but it is a dispensation as well. Without such dispensation Adam would have had no right to plow the field or to uproot thorns and thistles. One who enters his neighbor’s field and engages in such acts is an intruder and usurper. Since the land was created by God, Adam had no right to till the soil unless given specific dispensation.  In declaring, “By the sweat of your brow shall you eat bread” God at one and the same time grants dispensation for tilling the soil and indicates that henceforth it is the divine will that Adam do so. Adam may not longer simply rely only upon the largess of God; he must till the soil for sustenance. ROSNER 22

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