In my book, Adam, the Blueprint, and the Tree of Life, I ask a question that has gone unanswered for years: Why did God place the Tree of Life in the middle of the Garden yet never mention it to Adam?
He only gave one command — don’t eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. As Rabbi David Fohrman teaches in his powerful Aleph Beta series, this silence was intentional. God wanted Adam to learn through real experience.
He wanted Adam to eat from the trees, return to his Father, share what he had experienced, and only then receive guidance. That process builds genuine trust. Only after that earned understanding would Adam naturally eat from the Tree of Life and live forever.
Three Partners: Father, Mother, Hashem’s Breath
This is the blueprint Christianity has never fully dealt with.
Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein, in his lecture “Becoming Aware of Your Soul,” takes it deeper. He explains that “love your neighbor as yourself” only makes sense once you understand what “yourself” truly is. It is not the body. It is the neshama — the immortal soul that carries the divine spark. Every single human being possesses this spark because every person is created in God’s image.
Rabbi Goldstein draws this directly from Pirkei Avot:
- Pirkei Avot 3:18 — “Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God.”
- Pirkei Avot 3:1 — Know where you came from, where you are going, and before Whom you will give account — this “you” is the soul.
- Pirkei Avot 4:29 — The soul exists before birth and continues after death.
- Pirkei Avot 3:19 — Free will is given to the soul.
This same divine spark is the original code placed in Adam — the code that was meant to be lived, not replaced.
Love Your Neighbors as You Love Yourself
Rabbi Fohrman shows how this connects to real love. When someone does something wrong, the Torah does not say “just forgive and forget.” It says: Don’t hate your brother in your heart. Instead, speak up. Reprove him. Tell him what he did, but do it privately and carefully so you don’t embarrass him or cause yourself to sin. Only by putting your cards on the table can hatred be dissolved, and real love take its place.
This is the missing piece. A religion that waits for another figure to rebuild a temple while ignoring the Torah’s clear moral instructions has strayed from the original blueprint.
Follow The Science: DNA DOES NOT LIE
Modern genetics actually confirms what the Torah always taught. Nathaniel Jeanson’s research in Traced shows that all humanity traces back to one man — Adam — through Noah’s three sons, exactly as Genesis 10 describes. The divine image is not just spiritual. It is literally carried in our DNA.
Every soul matters. No one is condemned. Everyone carries that spark from Adam. Our job is to live the blueprint with honesty — correcting one another with love, expanding our sense of self, and walking the path that leads back to the Tree of Life.
Hazan Gavriel ben David