Serpents of desire: Good and evil in the Garden of Eden — It's All in the I of the Beholder
By Rabbi David Fohrman
"How do we feel when we are naked in public?...Embarrassed, I would think."I think you, Rabbi Fohrman, would not be any more embarrassed than the public you would be naked before.
Take this to the extreme of John Aschroft, the Evangelico, and we have a person even ashamed of a naked statue behind him so he ordered it be draped, would hide the beauty of the human body as G_d created it.
"Why, in Adam's mind, does his nakedness inspire not embarrassment, but fear?"
Because he did not know nakedness was an embarrassment?
"...why might fear of nakedness be exactly the response one might expect from a being who suddenly wakes to find himself inhabiting a radically new world of "good and evil"?"
He had good reason to fear G_d that threatened him with death but no reason to feel embarrassment?
Talk to you soon.
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