Of All the precepts: there are those of them that are suspended from the fruit of the tree, those of them from the branches, those of them from the roots, those of them from the tree trunk. And because of this, the Torah is called (Prov. 3:18) A tree of life... cxxvBT Berakhot 32b – and of anyone who eats of it: (Gen. 3:22)... and he shall eat of it and live forever.
And there is a tree below, whose branches and roots and body and fruit, are all ‘the poison of death’ – and this is Samael. Whoever transgresses upon the Torah, is watered from that tree and is sustained by it, and about that it is stated: (Gen. 2:17)... for on the day that you eat of it you will surely die – and from its aspect, it is a ‘life of anguish’.