English: It was taught: Rabbi Nechemyah says: The tree from which Adam the first man ate was a fig tree, for with the very thing with which they sinned they were repaired, as it is said “and they sewed fig leaves.”
On the daf / in context: Among the opinions identifying the forbidden tree, Rabbi Nechemyah points to the fig because the same species supplied the leaves for their covering.
Type of Learning: Custom (identity of the forbidden tree as fig)What Is Learned: The tree of knowledge was a fig; the leaves that covered them came from the same species with which they had sinned.