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““marriage born out of love so was the forbidden fruit in the garden forbidden outside the intimacy and love with relationship with God. You see, Adam and Eve were permitted to possess everything in the Garden of Eden except the fruit of one tree. Oral tradition teaches that this forbidden fruit wasn’t off limits to man, but only to Adam or Eve without the intimate presence and love with a relationship with God. This fruit was designed by God to be the bedroom so to speak with God and shared personally between two people, God and His beloved. Just as a husband and wife will share the fruits of their intimacy in a bedroom totally alone with no one around watching or listening, so God created this tree with its fruits to be shared with Himself and Adam alone or Eve alone. Sin did not occur until Eve shared the fruit with Adam, then she was sharing the one thing she was not allowed to share with her husband, that fruit that was meant for her and God alone. The penalty for Eve and her female descendants was that her “desire will be for her husband but he will rule over her. (Genesis 3:16).” This is another study in Hebrew but basically what it means is that a woman will try to gain from her husband that special love that only God can give. If she turns to her husband for it she will become frustrated and perhaps angry with her husband because He will be unable to give her what she deeply desires, something only God can give. Her husband will “rule over her””

— Chaim Bentorah