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ויברך אותם, “He blessed them.” G’d blessed them with the ability to absorb additional wisdom.

ויקרא את שמם אדם, He called their name “Adam (Man).” The only reason a human being is entitled to the description אדם is due to his שכל ונפש, to his intellect and emotional life-force, not because of his body. Were it not for שכל ונפש he would be indistinguishable from the animals as we know already from Psalms 49,13 נמשל כבהמות נדמו, “he is like the beasts that perish.” Seeing that man had been created “in the image of G’d,” he should have reproduced children which fitted the same description. This is indeed what happened when Adam and Chavah begat Sheth. Sheth represented a combination of שכל וחכמה, “intelligence and wisdom,” seeing that intelligence is the foundation of everything. The expression אבן שתיה, which our sages applied to the stone in the second Temple which replaced the original Holy Ark on that site, was so-called because that site was the foundation of the universe (Yuma 53). The name שת which Chavah gave to her third son symbolised that he was to be the שתיה, the foundation of mankind. He became the founding father of all righteous people in the world [seeing the Torah does not relate anything about him that is negative. Ed.]

‘BESHAGAM’ (FOR THAT ALSO) HE IS FLESH. It is as if beshagam were written beshegam with a segol under the shin. And Rashi explained: “This quality is also in him, that he is only flesh, and yet he is not humble before Me. What would he do if he were made of fire or some hard substance.” This explanation has neither rhyme nor reason.
Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra explained that G-d said, “My spirit will not abide in man forever because of this violence and also because man is flesh, and when he reaches a certain age he disintegrates.” Ibn Ezra thus understands the verse as if it said, gam beshehu basar (also because he is flesh). But what need is there for stating this contention when it is known that they were but flesh.⁴⁹⁶Psalms 78:39. and death had been decreed on them, as it says, For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return?⁴⁹⁷Above, 3:19.
The correct interpretation appears to me to be that G-d said: “My spirit shall not abide in man forever because man also is flesh as all flesh that creepeth upon the earth in the forms of fowl and cattle and beast, and it is not fitting that the spirit of G-d be within him.” The purport is to state that G-d made man upright⁴⁹⁸Ecclesiastes 7:29. to be like the ministering angels by virtue of the soul He gave him. But he was drawn after the flesh and corporeal desires; he is like the beasts that perish,⁴⁹⁹Psalms 49:13. and therefore the spirit of G-d will no longer be sheathed in him for he is corporeal and not godly. However, He will prolong for them [this withdrawal of spirit] if they repent. The sense of this verse is thus similar to [the verse in Psalm 78]: So He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

מיד כל חיה AT THE HAND OF EVERY BEAST — Because the generation of the Flood sinned and they were therefore freely exposed to become food for wild beasts which would have power over them — as it is said (Psalms 49:21), “He is ruled over by wild beasts like the beasts that perish” (these being the prey of other animals) (Shabbat 151b) — it was therefore necessary to proclaim a punishment against wild animals on their account.