Derasha 1 on Bereishis 2:17

EXTRA · Parashas Bereishis · Second Aliyah · Passuk 17

Complete Passuk

וּמֵעֵ֗ץ הַדַּ֙עַת֙ ט֣וֹב וָרָ֔ע לֹ֥א תֹאכַ֖ל מִמֶּ֑נּוּ כִּ֗י בְּי֛וֹם אֲכָלְךָ֥ מִמֶּ֖נּוּ מ֥וֹת תָּמֽוּת׃

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Source Citation

Sanhedrin 38b / classic — “on the day” and the thousand-year day.

E-Daf image (Sanhedrin 38b)

Core Text

Core Textכִּי בְּיוֹם אֲכָלְךָ מִמֶּנּוּ מוֹת תָּמוּת — אָמְרוּ: יוֹמוֹ שֶׁל הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא אֶלֶף שָׁנִים, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר כִּי אֶלֶף שָׁנִים בְּעֵינֶיךָ כְּיוֹם אֶתְמוֹל, וְאָדָם הָרִאשׁוֹן חַי תְּשַׁע מֵאוֹת וּשְׁלֹשִׁים שָׁנָה.
English of Core Text: “For on the day you eat of it you shall surely die” — they said: A day of the Holy One, blessed be He, is a thousand years, as it is said “For a thousand years in Your eyes are as yesterday”; and Adam the first man lived nine hundred and thirty years.
On the daf / in context: The apparent delay of death is resolved by reading “day” as a divine thousand-year day; Adam died within that “day.”
Type of Learning: Custom (divine day = thousand years)
What Is Learned: Adam died within the thousand-year “day” of God, fulfilling the warning.