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The Fruits of Knowledge at the “End” of Days

In the beginning, there was a tree, a choice, and a promise. The Tree of Knowledge beckoned
with an alluring whisper: "Take this fruit, and you'll know certainty. You'll have clear answers,
absolute truths, a world perfectly divided into good and bad." It was the first shortcut humanity
tried to take, and it led to our longest journey.

When Adam and Eve reached for that fruit, they weren't just seeking knowledge—they were
seeking the power to judge, to label things as definitively good or bad. But here's the profound
truth: no human can truly make such judgments, because every moment, when expanded,
stretches into infinity. Each action creates endless ripples of consequences, both direct and
indirect, transforming what seemed good into bad and bad into good in an eternal dance of
cause and effect. Only God, who sees the end from the beginning, can truly say something is
"good"—as He did during creation, because He alone knows the ultimate outcome of each
thing.

They wanted to bypass the sacred process of discovery, to avoid the cycle of running and
falling, of contracting and expanding, of listening deeply to their authentic selves. "Just tell us
what's good and what's bad," they pleaded, "and we'll follow that formula forever." But life isn't
meant to be a formula or a self-help checklist. And in that moment of seeking certainty, we
descended from the world of Yetzirah into Asiyah, from a realm of pure potential into a world of
concrete limitations.

But here's the profound paradox: what seemed like our greatest fall contains within it the seed of
our ultimate redemption. For now, as we approach the end of days, we're being offered a
remarkable gift—the ability to see the light at the end of the tunnel before we enter it. We're
being shown the end at the beginning, not to skip the journey, but to embrace it fully, knowing
with certainty that every step, even through darkness, leads to light.

The original sin wasn't eating from the Tree of Knowledge—it was trying to avoid the beautiful
uncertainty of life's unfolding. Now, in our time, we're being given a second chance. Not to avoid
the tunnel, but to walk through it with courage, knowing that every challenge, every moment of
darkness, is part of a greater story leading to redemption.

What seemed like separate stories—the fall from Eden and the promise of redemption—are
actually one continuous narrative. Just as the Tree of Knowledge offered false certainty that led
to confusion, the end of days offers true certainty that leads to clarity. We no longer need to
freeze life into rigid categories of good and bad, because we can see how every moment, even
the difficult ones, serves the journey home.

This is our moment of Tikkun, of repair. Where Adam and Eve sought to skip the journey, we are
called to embrace it. Where they reached for instant knowledge, we are invited to earn wisdom
through experience. Where they fled from uncertainty, we are given the strength to dance with it,
knowing the music will lead us home.
What once seemed like confusion and struggle was only because we were standing in the
middle of the story—like opening a book to a random page and expecting to understand the
whole plot. But now, in these end of days, we're being given an extraordinary gift: the ability to
feel the end while still in the middle, to taste the sweetness of completion while still on the
journey.

The light no longer waits at the tunnel's end—it floods backward through time, illuminating every
step, every choice, every moment. We don't have to merely believe anymore, nor do we have to
know in our minds. Instead, we get to float on the pleasure of the ending through all our
beginnings and middles. The joy of completion carries us through every challenge, every
apparent setback.

This is the deepest healing of the Tree of Knowledge—transforming its wound into wisdom, its
fall into ascent. We no longer seek the false certainty of labeling things good or bad, because
we're carried by something far more powerful: the pleasure of the end flowing backward, lifting
us through every step of the journey. The light isn't just waiting for us anymore—it's carrying us
home.

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