What if Adam and Eve had obeyed God's command in Eden? Through a contemporary midrashic interpretation of Genesis, Kushner reimagines this pivotal moment of human history by having the first humans reject the serpent's temptation and remain faithful to the divine prohibition against eating from the Tree of Knowledge. While their obedience earns them God's favor and a peaceful existence alongside animals - free from labor, pain, and emotional complexity - this alternative narrative reveals unexpected and profound consequences. By choosing perpetual innocence, humanity remains in a primitive, animal-like state, devoid of creativity, technology, art, and the full spectrum of human experience. As grass slowly overtakes the untouched Tree of Knowledge, it symbolizes humanity's forfeit of moral and intellectual development. Through traditional Jewish exegetical methods, this reimagining challenges conventional interpretations of the biblical "fall," suggesting that disobedience paradoxically represented humanity's necessary ascent toward consciousness, creativity, and moral responsibility rather than a purely negative transgression.