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This is also the meaning of the words in verse 29 “here I have given to you all the herbs containing seed on earth and every tree thereon which produces seed as food to eat.” You will note that when designating what humans were to eat, the Torah underlines the importance of these plants generating seed, זורע זרע, whereas such capability of the food generating seed is not mentioned in connection with the plants designated as fodder for the animals. There the Torah merely wrote (verse 30) כל ירק עשב לאכלה, “all manner of green herbs as food.” These foodstuffs assigned to the animals did not have the power to regenerate themselves by producing seed, hence they could not do so within the animals which consumed them. This blessing was valid for man until he sinned. Once he had sinned, his whole nature underwent a change. In the future this blessing will be restored to man and this is what Isaiah 11,7 had in mind when he described the idyllic situation at that future time when both man and beast will be eating straw. Man will once again be able to derive all the nutrients necessary for his infinite life from the very vegetable matter assigned to him at creation. This may also have been alluded to already in our verse where the Torah phrased such food as serving man “in the future,” i.e., “it will become fit as food for you.” לכם יהיה לאכלה. If the Torah had in mind only the present world it need merely have written לכם הוא לאכלה, “for you it is as food, “or לכם נתתי לאכלה, “to you I have given it as food.” The fact that verse 29 begins with the past tense and concludes with the future tense is a clear hint that the Torah tries to tell us something beyond what is immediately obvious. The additional information contained in that future tense is that in due course G’d will reactivate certain functions of the human body enabling it to absorb certain potential in the food he consumes to be used by his body so that his body completely replaces any vital fluids lost through exposure to the elements. Thus far I have quoted from the author of the book ספר המגלה.