The Failed Mission - 3

Please read Part 2 before proceeding with this essay. 

In Bereshit 2:15 it says, "וַיִּקַּ֛ח יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶת־הָֽאָדָ֑ם וַיַּנִּחֵ֣הוּ בְגַן־עֵ֔דֶן לְעׇבְדָ֖הּ וּלְשׇׁמְרָֽהּ׃ - The ETERNAL G-d settled the Human in the garden of Eden, to till it and tend it." 

So Adam and Eve were placed in the Garden of Eden to till and tend the land. But they committed sin, and G-d removed them from the Garden.

In Bereshit 3:24 says: "וַֽיְשַׁלְּחֵ֛הוּ יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים מִגַּן־עֵ֑דֶן לַֽעֲבֹד֙ אֶת־הָ֣אֲדָמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֻקַּ֖ח מִשָּֽׁם׃ - So the ETERNAL G-d banished them from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which they were taken.

וַיְגָ֖רֶשׁ אֶת־הָֽאָדָ֑ם וַיַּשְׁכֵּן֩ מִקֶּ֨דֶם לְגַן־עֵ֜דֶן אֶת־הַכְּרֻבִ֗ים וְאֵ֨ת לַ֤הַט הַחֶ֙רֶב֙ הַמִּתְהַפֶּ֔כֶת לִשְׁמֹ֕ר אֶת־דֶּ֖רֶךְ עֵ֥ץ הַֽחַיִּֽים׃ - Humankind was driven out; and east of the garden of Eden were stationed the cherubim and the fiery ever-turning sword, to guard the way to the Tree of Life."

So, here's the question? Since men tilling the soil here on Earth, who is tilling and tending the Garden up there today?

Centuries later, the Four Sages enter the Pardes to "till and tend the land," as it may seem, since no one has worked there since the time Adam was removed? Why did this action make Metatron sit? Why did Ben Azai stay behind or die? Why did Ben Zoma lose his mind, as it may seem, and Rabbi Elisha ben Avuyah go off the derekh and was called an Aher?

And since the expedition of the four sages above has failed, I believe no trees grow there today, but the two trees that still exist are the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life and Death.

Go ahead and ask me why you need to know this information.

Because the major figures are involved in this episode - Adam and Eve, Moshe Rabbenu, the Four Sages, especially Rabbi Elisha ben Avuyah, Samech Mem, or as he is known as Satan, other Tannaim - and, most importantly, from generation to generation, an attempt by the sages to solve this mystery.

Just don't start with Aher. Let me tell you something: a person who knew how to ascend to the Garden and has bypassed the Cherubim angels and the fiery, forever-turning sword - suddenly became non-observant or off the derekh?! Please, I don't buy that. A person with such a high level of esoteric knowledge Could Not Do That. Do note, since then, we have never had another person documented in our literature as having made it there - none. But I will reveal how to spot if there ever was someone who has made it there - undocumented in our history - since the entrance has been shut with fiery angels guarding it, or was it? 

Could some of our commandments related to agriculture, in some way or another, be trying to correct that incident in the Garden that Adam created, since he did not tend the Garden? I will let the rabbis be the judge on that.

As I've said before, someone tried hard to conceal the real reason for that expedition in the Talmud, and I believe I can finally expose that person and the reason for their ascent.

So, the questions are: what is G-d trying to accomplish? What are the Tannayim trying to hide? Why are such major figures involved in this mystery? Why is Satan very active every time that information is about to be revealed - those that know, know. How do every generation before us and we fit into this grand scheme of things? 

And most importantly, what mistake do we make, and what mistake have the generations before us made, because of the lack of knowledge on this issue?

My offer to the esteemed rabbis still stands...

Shmuel Katanov