Eve as Mother of All Living and the Torah Bookended by Kindness

Another interpretation: She showed (chivah) her how many generations she had caused to be lost. Rabbi Acha said: The serpent is your serpent, and you are the serpent of Adam. "For she was the mother of all living" (Genesis 3:20). Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar said: [Read] "with all the living" - it is taught: when he grew rich she rose with him; when he grew poor she did not descend with him. Rabbi Siman says: "mother of all living" - the mother of all the living. For Rabbi Siman said: All one hundred and thirty years that Eve was separated from Adam, the spirits of the males were aroused by her and she bore from them, and female spirits were aroused by Adam and bore from him. This is what is written, "When he sins I will chastise him with the rod of men and with the afflictions of human beings" (II Samuel 7:14) - the children of the first Adam. Rav Pappa said: Rava tested us. If she says to nurse and he says not to nurse, we listen to her, for the pain is hers. If he says to nurse and she says not to nurse, what then? Wherever it is not her way and not his way, what do we follow, his or hers? And we resolved it: she rises with him and does not descend with him. What is the verse? (Genesis 20:3) "And she is a man's wife" [literally, possessed by a husband] - in the husband's rising and not in the husband's descent. Rabbi Elazar said: from here - "For she was the mother of all living" - she was given for life and not given for pain. (Genesis 3:21) "And the LORD God made... garments of skin." Rav and Shmuel: one said, a thing that comes from skin; and one said, a thing from which the skin benefits. Rabbi Simlai expounded: The Torah begins with acts of loving-kindness and ends with acts of loving-kindness, as it is written (Deuteronomy 34:6), "And He buried him in the valley." Rabbi Chama bar Chanina said: What is the meaning of what is written, "After the LORD your God shall you walk" (Deuteronomy 13:5)? Is it possible for a person to walk after the Divine Presence? Has it not already been said (Deuteronomy 4:24), "He is a consuming fire"? Rather, walk after His attributes. The Holy One, blessed be He, clothed the naked, as it is said, "garments of skin, and He clothed them" - so too you clothe the naked. The Holy One, blessed be He, visited the sick, as it is written (Genesis 18:1), "And the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre" - so too you visit the sick. The Holy One, blessed be He, comforted mourners, as it is written (Genesis 25:11), "And it was after the death of Abraham that God blessed Isaac his son" - so too you comfort mourners. The Holy One, blessed be He, buried the dead, as it is written, "And He buried him in the valley" - so too you bury the dead. This Rabbi Yehoshua ben Chananiah expounded: "And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skin" - this teaches that the Holy One, blessed be He, does not make skin for a person unless he is first formed. Rabbi Yehoshua follows his own reasoning, for he said: One who miscarries a fetal sac that is not formed, even if it is clear fluid, his mother is impure with the impurity of childbirth. But the Sages say it is not a child, and the law does not follow Rabbi Yehoshua.