Dora Bas Rivka Silver O'H A Little More Detail Now the Torah
recaps some high points of the Creation narrative, focusing on
some details that weren’t provided in the overview. After G-d
had created the Earth, the plants had not yet sprouted because
He hadn’t yet caused it to rain. G-d brought a mist that watered
the ground. Then, He formed man from the ground and breathed
life into him. G-d planted a Garden in Eden, in the east and
placed man there. Every kind of tree could be found in the
Garden, including the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge
between good and evil. A river flowed from the Garden and split
into four rivers: Pishon, Gichon, Chidekel and Fras. (The latter
two are the Tigris and Euphrates.) G-d placed the man in the
Garden with instructions to care for it. The man was given
permission to eat from any tree except the Tree of Knowledge
between good and evil. If he ate from it, on that day he would
die. (Of course, Adam did not literally die on that very day,
but on that day he became subject