Adam, Fall of
While it is incorrect to say that post-biblical Judaism attaches no special significance to Adam's fall or knows nothing of
original sin
, it is certainly true that, with the exception of the Kabbalah the fall does not occupy an important place in Jewish theology. There are many interpretations of Adam's sin and of the tree of knowledge from which he ate after having been forbidden by God so to do. Opinions range from that which understands the knowledge of good and evil as ...