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[Alexandr Korol]

knowing good and evil.’ Finally, the woman yielded to the serpent’s persuasion, breaking the will of the Lord, after which she gave the fruit also to Adam. As a result, Adam and Eve realized their nakedness and hid from God.” Life after the expulsion from Eden. “Eve bore from Adam first Cain, and then a second son — Abel.” And after that came the Great Flood.

Let us look again at what the Tree of Life is. “The Tree of Life (Tree of Life, Paradise Tree, Heb., Etz ha-Chayim) — a biblical image from the Book of Genesis, the tree in the midst of the Garden of Eden, the fruits of which give immortality, planted by God alongside the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (Gen. 2:9). It is also mentioned in the biblical Book of Proverbs of Solomon.

In Judaism

In Judaism the Tree of Life symbolizes the Torah. When during the synagogue service it comes time to return the Torah to the Ark, those gathered recite lines from the Book of Proverbs of Solomon: ‘She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her’ (Prov. 3:18). The ends of the Torah scroll are attached to wooden rollers, which are called ‘etz chayim’ (‘tree of life’). The rollers are used for the convenience of rolling up and unrolling the scroll.

According to traditional Jewish interpretation, the Tree of Life is in the middle of paradise, and its shadow covers the entire garden. It exudes five hundred thousand different fragrances, and its sweet aroma reaches the edge of the world. Under it sit the scholars of the Torah, who interpret and teach it from the mouth of God, dwelling among them.”

You see, this is exactly what I meant. To explain it even more correctly, the Tree of Life is knowledge, simply knowledge. And whoever is initiated into it and has not lost it — that one, accordingly, is immortal and is nourished by the source of all this, whoever has not lost that source. Further: “In the Tanakh.

In the 2nd chapter of the Book of Genesis it is said: