Beyond the fence of Paradise

Abstract

Leaving Eden to enter Paradise, that is, the world and history: this is perhaps what the biblical myth of the expulsion of Adam and Eve tells us. The Jewish legend of the four rabbis of the Mishnaic period (1st century AD) also takes up the theme of remaining in the Garden and leaving it. Renouncing eternity means accepting man’s constitutive lack and his vocation to freedom. Freedom also from knowledge that opens u