Nadene Goldfoot
Hari was interviewed on Portland, Oregon's KATU channel 2 this morning and mentioned his mango idea, questioning the apple. His family is from southern India.
Mango eating can be a problem for some. In mango, urushiol is found in high concentrations in the peel and the fruit just beneath the peel. In most people, contact with urushiol will induce an allergic skin response. With mango, the allergy may not be as common as, say, poison oak or poison ivy but, in some cases, it can be just as profound.
Hari, I want to tell you, you are so close to the truth! The fruit of the tree was never named! It could have been a mango just as easily. As Hari mentioned, the mango is an important fruit in India. Mango is the national fruit of India, Pakistan and the Philippines, while the mango tree is the national tree of Bangladesh. Well, we have Johnny Appleseed in the USA to thank for having apples to eat.
The Bible starts off with Genesis and the story of Hashem G-d planting a garden in Eden, to the east, and placed there man and the Tree of Life in the midst of the garden and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad.
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A river came out of Eden to water the garden, and it divided and became 4 headwaters.
Man was placed in the garden to work it and to guard it. G-d made man a helper, Eve. A serpent was also in the garden, smarter than any other beast, and talked Eve into eating the fruit that was forbidden to eat, or she would die. As he said to her, that she wouldn't die because her eyes would be opened and you would be like G-d, knowing good and bad. You know the story, she ate it and of course talked Adam into eating some, too. The fruit was not named.
The question had already come up with: Was the 'forbidden fruit' in the Garden of Eden really an apple? By published
Nobody knows because the Hebrew Bible just says "fruit."
Fruit in Hebrew is: (Hebrew is read from right to left). פרי which is a pay, raish, and youd; so fruit is: pree or free, as a pay can be an F or P sound, but I think here its a P sound. I'm going by my 1980 Hebrew class in Haifa.
Hari Karthikeya Kondabolu was born October 21, 1982 in the Flushing neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens, to Uma and Ravi Kondabolu, who had immigrated from the city of Tenali in the Coastal Andhra region of South India. His mother was previously a physician in India, and both parents became the heads of New York area medical labs. Ravi Kondabolu had immigrated to the United States in 1978.
Although his stand-up comedy career was gaining traction in 2007, he was accepted to the Masters in Human Rights program at the London School of Economics in 2007, and thus took a hiatus year from stand-up to earn his MSc.
He performed in Portland, thus was interviewed this morning.
Kondabolu's humor often centers on social issues such as poverty, racism, and a rejection of Indian stereotypes seen in media. He has spoken about the challenges of dealing with white fragility when addressing race in his comedy. He has also addressed a variety of other social subjects, such as the LGBT community.
Reference:
KATU AM Northwest interview 9am 8/19/22.
Tanakh (Bible) Art Scroll Series, The Stone Edition
https://www.livescience.com/what-was-forbidden-fruit-in-eden.html
https://katu.com/afternoon-live/lifestyle-health/comedian-hari-kondabolu-08-15-2022
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