Adam and Eve and the Tree of Knowledge
Or should it be
Eve and Adam and the Tree of Knowledge
Everyone knows the story in Genesis
The Serpent talked Eve into eating from the Tree of Knowledge.
She did and then talked Adam into eating from it.
And then G-d threw them out of the Garden and blocked the way to the Tree of Life which, by the way, was never forbidden. As a matter of fact G-d wanted them to eat from it.
And that's how all this trouble got started.
You may even be familiar with what some of the commentaries say about this.
Here is a Sefirotic explanation (this does not negate the various commentaries but is another facet of the story - the Torah has many facets)
The Tree of Knowledge - Etz HaDaas is of course the Sfira of Daas - the power of Concentration or Meditation
The Tree of Life is the Sfirah of Binah - the power of Detailed Analysis or Hisbonenus (as explained in my series.)
Kabbalah explains (and the psychologists are beginning to find out) that Daas is Man's special power while Binah is Woman's. (Men are from Mars Women are from Venus)
So when Eve chose to eat from The Tree of Knowledge she made it a Man's world as evidenced by the punishment she received - to be subservient to the male. This is a situation which women are just now starting to come out from.
Originally Woman was HIGHER than Man since Binah is higher than Daas.
Now she was LOWER.
This will be rectified with the coming of Messiah since we will then eat from the Tree of Life - Kabbalistic Hisbonenus. Of course it will be again the women who eat first and then feed the male.
That's why it is so important that women learn Kabbalah