If you are saying that the thought of Adam ascended to there – surely not! For it is stated of him: (Gen. 3:10)... and I was afraid, for I was naked, and I hid... For the word ‘naked’ (’arum) shows that he was stripped of his garment, and because of that, it is stated of the Father of humanity:... and I hid, and of the son: (Ex. 3:6)... and Moses concealed...’
He said to him: ‘My son, in all did he Adam sin: in ‘thought’ – which is the garment of ‘hidden thought’ – and in ‘hidden thought’.
And this was his death, for thought – hidden of all hidden – was withdrawn from him, which is ‘life of the living’∞ḥaiy ha-ḥayim, for in the place where it hidden thought exists, there is no death there, and he sinned in hidden thought, and he remained