Tim Mackie

What does that mean?

Let's meditate on it.

Yeah.

So it's like an interpretive move.

Yeah.

It's an inference from the shape of the story because the one who creates and generates life in the seven day story is God.

He creates the Nefesh Chaya, the living creature.

And then God also gives living creatures on the land this gift of generating their own life.

regeneration of new life, but ultimately the source of that life is God.

And so the fruit of a tree, in a way, can give a gift of life, but ultimately any life that that tree is giving has to come from God, especially the tree of life that's supposed to give unending life.

Like that could only ever ultimately come from God, not from a tree in and of itself.

Yeah.

So hope deferred, something you desire and long for, if you never ever realize it, that's a miserable existence.

To constantly be agitated towards something that you long for and to never get it.

We all know that feeling.

But man, when you have a significant desire met and fulfilled, oh man.

What else can you describe except it's just like a taste of the tree of life.

Desire fulfilled.

Which I think should, let's go back to the 10th command.

Do not desire your neighbor's house or wife or their stuff.