Reply To: Chidushim on Daf Yomi

The Rambam explains in Shmonei Perokim Perek 4, that the person was created with an eqilibrium. When this balance is upset, he becomes ch’v sick. To heal him, this equilibrium must be restored.
In SA O’CH 170 it says that foods contain salt and drinks contain water, so we don’t have to be concerned for the lack of salt or water.

By the argument between Hilel and Shamai to eat in the week days for shabbos, Hillel says Bless Hashem day by day. It is great when Hashem wants us to bless him day by day. The snake was cursed by providing it food without need to ask for it as dust is available all over. Explains the Chidushei Harim that Hashem said to the snake, here is your food and don’t bother me. I don’t want to her from you.

The Chasam Sofer left in his will שלא יבוש המעין ויקצץ האילן the well should not dry out and the tree be cut where he was referring to the Torah.
The Ben Ish Chai has a mashel: A father had a field with beautiful trees and other plantations. The watering was done through irrigation canals. They periodically had to be dug out from pebbles and other stones which stuffed them up. The father was afraid that his children will not follow in his way and they will not dig them out, so he left it in the will that there is a treasure buried in the ditches. The children after his death, dug them out but they did not find anything in them. Later, they were surprised how beautifully everything grew. Then they understood what the father meant. We have too constantly make sure that the Torah be able to flow by digging out any obstructions. הפך בה הפך בה דכולה בה turn it around, turn it around, why twice? You are allowed to question things but we should not leave it like that.

According to the view that Adam Harishon drank wine, we say lechaim to bring us life, here and the next world. The Chasam Sofer explains in Toras Moshe that Adam had a proof that he was able to eat through his wife. She was not commanded directly. The command was on grapes. He drank wine. His argument was like this. If the juice of the fruit is the same as the fruit then Chava was part of him, so if he was commanded, she also was commanded, so why didn’t she die and if the juice is not the same as the fruit, then I drank wine and did not eat the fruit.
The medrash says that it was an esrog. According to this we can understand why the earth was punished at the same time when Adam was punished for not following Hashem’s commandment that the tree and fruit should have the same taste. Adam knew that he is not allowed to eat the tree but he was questioning the fruit, so he tasted the tree and fruit and he saw they taste differently. So he ate the fruit and not the tree from eitz hadaas but it was an esrog where the fruit and the tree taste the same. If the earth would have properly followed the commandment, Adam would have not made the mistake, therefore the earth was responsible for his sin.