From a legal perspective

From a legal perspective: did Adam really disobey God In the Garden of Eden? when you think about it: God told Adam not to eat from the tree and technically he didn't, eat from the tree;  Adam ate from his wife's hands. from a technical standpoint where did adam sin? Even to the point - when God confronts Adam about eating from the tree, he says; the woman that you gave me brought me, which could be interpreted as him passing blame or it could be stating the obvious- that Adam did not eat from the tree and did not disobey God..What do you think?

Then the next obvious question is: if Adam didn't sin, did Chava sin? In the book of Exodus God tells Moses that Moses will be a God to pharaoh. Which is similar to what the serpent promised Eve. Not that she would be a God over Pharaoh but rather Chava and her husband will become Gods themselves. ....Arguably one could say, that, the serpent gave Eve the ability to understand God's law on a deeper level. Maybe on a simple level - when God tells Adam and Eve not to eat from the tree or they will die, it sounds like the way we read it; if you eat from the tree you will die, as if the tree is poisonous and eating is a grave sin....but maybe, the serpent was teaching eve, it wasn't about the literal sin and death. maybe it was about seeing the reality of good and bad which could lead to death. And maybe not a physical death but a spiritual death.

Like for example, a person falling in love for the first time and not knowing what it is to have your heart broken - but at the same time if you don't have your heart broken it's hard to know what true love is.

So God said "don't eat from the tree, Lest you shall die" and the serpent comes along and says basically that you can only know what life and death is if you eat from the tree. My argument is - What made Eve and Adam unique to the rest of creation, and what makes humans unique to the world, was this ability to question or reinterpret Gods law.

-Shariff Mordechai Hazan for Congress 2016