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  2. Forbidden fruit - Wikipedia

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    The story of the Book of Genesis places the first man and woman, Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden, where they may eat the fruit of many trees, but are forbidden by God to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

  3. Tree of the knowledge of good and evil - Wikipedia

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    Adam and Eve - Paradise, the fall of man as depicted by Lucas Cranach the Elder, the Tree of knowledge of good and evil is on the right. In Judaism and Christianity, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Tiberian Hebrew: עֵץ הַדַּעַת טוֹב וָרָע, romanized: ʿêṣ had-daʿaṯ ṭōḇ wā-rāʿ, [ʕesˤ hadaʕaθ tˤov wɔrɔʕ]; Latin: Lignum scientiae boni et mali ...

  4. Tree of life (biblical) - Wikipedia

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    Each of the tree's branches (sefirot) represents a different category of creative force that is overseen by a different Archangel. Believers claim that by focusing on the various energies one by one, people can develop a closer spiritual union with God. Kabbalah is an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought in Jewish mysticism. [19]

  5. Fall of man - Wikipedia

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    William Blake's color printing of God Judging Adam original composed in 1795. This print is currently held by the Tate Collection. [66] In the biblical story, God's judgement results in the fall of man. The fall of man has been depicted many times in art, including in Albrecht Dürer's Adam and Eve (1504) and Titian's The Fall of Man (c. 1550 ...

  6. Holiday History: Why Do We Put Up and Decorate Trees?

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    Boniface allegedly began cutting down the tree with his axe to stop their worship, and they expected him to be struck by lightning from their god. When that didn't happen, he began telling them ...

  7. Adam and Eve - Wikipedia

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    The first man and woman are in God's Garden of Eden, where all creation is vegetarian and there is no violence. They are permitted to eat the fruits of all the trees except one, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The woman is tempted by a talking serpent to eat the forbidden fruit, and gives some to the man, who eats also. [10]

  8. Cursing of the fig tree - Wikipedia

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    Most scholars believe that the Gospel of Mark was the first gospel and was used as a source by the authors of Matthew and Luke. [12] Mark uses the cursing of the barren fig tree to bracket and comment on the story of the Jewish temple: Jesus and his disciples are on their way to Jerusalem when Jesus curses a fig tree because it bears no fruit; in Jerusalem he drives the money-changers from the ...

  9. What is behind the tradition of eating 12 grapes on New Year's?

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    The 12 grapes, which stand for the months of the year, need to be eaten one by one before the clock changes to 12:01. If the grapes are consumed, the tradition states good luck will be by your ...