Reply To: Bereishis – Tying the End of the Torah to the beginning.

Being today 25 Tishri, 183 Yahr Zeit of the Chasam Sofer, I will quote an explanation where Adam Harishon excused himself that the wife given to him was at fault for eating the forbidden fruit which looks like the denying of the good. The Midrash says that he drank grape juice from a grapevine. The question is if something emanates from the strength of something else is it like the thing itself? Chavah was never commanded on the Eitz Hadaas. So mema nafshech, in either case Adam Harishan believed that he can eat from it. If the juice is not like the fruit then he had the juice and if it is, then Chavah was also like him, so why did she not die? He did not realize that the day of a Hashem is a thousand years until one can still die. Some say שלוחו של אדם כמותו, the banishing him and Chavah from the Gan Eden was like dying.