Writes, just as the sun and the moon are true servants whose actions are pure and devoid of an evil inclination, so too was Adam HaRishon before the sin – without a Yetzer Hara. Chava continued, "But if you eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and bring the Yetzer Hara into yourself and then manage to overcome it – now that is called withstanding a test! That is wisdom! Then you’ll prove to Hakadosh Baruch Hu you’re a true servant." Shlomo refers to this sin as "a sin of calculation."
What did Hakadosh Baruch Hu then do to Adam HaRishon? We brought the words of the Yalkut Reuveni, that Hakadosh Baruch Hu gave him a tikkun and made him Tzitzit. But why specifically Tzitzit? According to what we just learned, the answer is very simple – Tzitzit is the bond of servitude, and a servant does what the master tells him, without any calculation! Just as Chizkiyahu refrained from having children after foreseeing they would be wicked, but Yeshayahu HaNavi rebuked him, saying, "Why involve yourself in the calculations of Hakadosh Baruch Hu? What you’re commanded to do – you must do! And what is pleasing to Hakadosh Baruch Hu – let Him do!" Man must fulfill his obligations without calculations.
It isn’t by chance that Shema, which is the acceptance of Ol Malchut Shamayim, ends with the Parsha of Tzitzit, and not by chance that we wear Tzitzit behind us and in front of us – because מַלְכוּתוֹ בְּרָ צוֹן קִ בְּלוּ עֲלֵיהֶם. They willingly accepted His kingdom upon themselves. When? At Kriyat Yam Suf. Tzitzit is the seal of the willing acceptance of Ol Malchut Shamayim!
Adam HaRishon was the first person to make a calculation – and who convinced him to make a calculation? The woman! Therefore, when the woman goes to get married, she says to her intended husband, "Listen, I once told you to make a calculation, so now, before the wedding, take Tzitzit, and with it, remember to do everything that Hakadosh Baruch Hu told you to do, and not what I told you!" The woman sends her husband a Tallit to correct the calculation that the first woman in Creation made.
We asked why everyone wraps themselves in a Tallit at a Brit Milah. It's very simple – for the same reason; the Torah says in Parshat Tazria: And on the eighth day, the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. The Ohr HaChaim Hakadosh writes, the creation of Adam HaRishon was a perfect creation in the aspect of holiness, devoid of all evil, and therefore there was no aspect of the foreskin in his nature; and due to the sin, he drew the foreskin upon himself (Sanhedrin 38b), and the aspect of the foreskin was born in him. If Brit Milah comes as a result of the sin of Adam HaRishon, therefore at the time of the Brit Milah, everyone wraps themselves in a Tallit – to rectify the sin of calculation!
The same applies during a funeral – all the way to the grave, the deceased is wrapped in a Tallit. But when he is lowered into the grave, the Tallit is removed. Why? Because the grave is his final tikkun – כִּי עָפָר אַתָּה וְאֶל עָפָר תָּשׁ וּב. Therefore, he no longer needs the Tallit once returned to the ground.
