BH
The Need for A Rebbe
In the Bible :
Berishit :
If Adam would have had a Rebbe he would have not sinned.
Rashi comments on the conversation that
G-d had with Adam, Chava, and The Snake after having eaten
form the Tree of Knowledge. G-d asks them Adam and Chava why they sinned, and
each blames the other, Adam blames Chava, Chava blames the Snake. However G-d
does not ask the Snake, why he decided to seduce them into sinning. Rashi
explains because he had the perfect excuse: “The words of the Teacher and the
words of the Student; who do you listen to”? Meaning, the Snake, could have
said the Adam should have not listening to him, because one must listen to the
words of their teacher instead of the words of another student. Adam himself is
to blame for eating from the tree. This comment brings an interesting thought
to mind. Had Adam, thought of himself as a Student with a teacher perhaps he
would have not sinned.
Unfortunately, Adam viewed himself as his own Rav.
In the Midrash
In the Talmud
In Halacha
In the Chassidic Lore
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