Attaining and Forfeiting Adam’s Immortality at Sinai

The notion of a primal sin resulting in humans losing their original immortal state plays a major role within Christian thinking that affirms the idea of original sin. Yet, one can see that certain streams of classical Jewish thinking also picked up aspects of this theological complex of ideas and also suggested that one fatal sin led first Adam in Eden (representing all humanity) and then later at the golden calf all Israel to lose their original immortal state. Read Full Article »