Our sages tell us that before the sin – the sin that plunged humanity into five thousand years of hell, darkness, confusion – man and woman were naked, in fact they were in intimate union, and they were embarrassed not – in simple words, what really occurred was not the eating of an apple, but as kabbalah teaches, man developed an ego – now intimate union is the holiest of acts, but ego the must disgusting, for the former is about "us" where two merges and transcend self, while the latter is about demeaning, humiliating, degradation, in other words, where my existence annihilates yours