# <![CDATA[Forbidden Fruit are Always the Sweetest]]>

From **Online Torah Classes with Rabbi Mendy Goldberg** by R Mendy Goldberg.

- **Published:** Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:05:41 GMT
- **Duration:** 00:38:39
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<![CDATA[<p><strong>BEREISHIS</strong></p><p><strong>Forbidden Fruit are Always the Sweetest</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Parshas Bereishis reads like an indictment of humanity. On every day of Creation the Torah declares"tov" that it was good, yet after the creation of man those words are conspicuously missing, and by the end of the parsha man is described as "only evil all day long," leading to the decree of the Flood. But after the Flood, when Noach offers his korbanos, Hashem swears never again to destroy the world, using almost the very same reason: "for the inclination of man's heart is evil from his youth" </p><p>What is man, at his core, good or evil?</p>
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