Where Are You and the Turning of Adam's Heart

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 28:1

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"And the LORD God called to the man, Where are you?" (Genesis 3:9). How was it for you yesterday, that you followed My counsel, and now you follow the counsel of the serpent? Yesterday you reached from one end of the world to the other, and now you are within the trees of the garden. Rav Yehuda said in the name of Rav: The first man was a heretic, as it is said, "And He said to him, Where are you" - meaning, toward what does your heart incline? Rabbi Yitzchak said: He drew his foreskin forward [concealing his circumcision], as it is said, "But they like Adam transgressed the covenant" (Hosea 6:7), and it is written, "He has broken My covenant." Rav Nachman said: He denied the fundamental principle, for it is written here "like Adam they transgressed the covenant," and it is written there "because they forsook the covenant" (Deuteronomy 29:24).

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