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R. Hanina, son of R. Adda, said: From the Beginning of the Book until here no samech is written, but as soon as she [Eve] was created, Satan was created with her. . .. AND HE CLOSED UP THE PLACE WITH FLESH INSTEAD THEREOF (TAHTENNAH). R. Hanina b. Isaac said: He provided him with a fitting outlet (naweh) for his nether functions, that his modesty might not be outraged like an animal.

Midrash Rabbah, Bereshith, XVII, 6.​

For some time I've implied that Genesis 2:21, the pulling of Eve from Adam, is not just the creation of Eve, but concomitantly, the creation of the phallus, and thus the evil inclination, which comes (so to say), through the phallus, having formerly resided (the evil inclination) in the testemonial stones attached to the phallus. The phallus and the testimonial stones can be seen to be not just the member defining gender duality, but the member whose very purpose in temporarily repairing the original breach of androgyny leads forthwith, and with the foreskin intact, straight to the original sin.

Midrash Rabbah implies that the creation of Eve, and specifically the suturing up of the place where she's pulled, סגר (sagar), proves once and for all that a sagar is not always merely a sagar סגר nor a suture always just a suture. The midrashim relates the suture, the sagar סגר, directly to the organ that's representative of "Satan," the organ that this particular midrashim claims is created in the act of pulling Eve from Adam's formerly sagar-less body.

Someone will no doubt protest the foregoing on any number of points, a number of which should be addressed. For instance, Midrash Rabbah claims that the sagar סגר is associated with the organ that both allows Adam to urinate with modesty, and the organ the creation of which is the creation of "Satan." But even the most casual student of Hebrew will know enough to point out that "Satan" is spelled with a shin ש and not a samech ס?

Nevertheless, Rabbi Michael L. Munk, speaking for a number of authoritative sources (not the least of which is Rabbi Hirsch) says: "Since שׁ and ס are phonetically identical, they are often interchanged; thus שטן [Satan] can be spelled סטן (R' Bachya to Bereishis Rabbah 3:24)." -----By the same reasonable reasoning the tet ט and the tav ת can be interchanged. Such that סטן can become סתן, which implies that the samech ס is the outer enclosure (R. Munk) surrounding (as the samech implies) the serpent, or dragon, the tan תן. "Satan," is what you get, when you place a sagar סגר on a body such that the very thing you "enclose" (samech), with the suture, the sagar סגר, is the serpent, the dragon, the originator of the original sin.

The samech ס, which is taught to be an "enclosure" enclosing something, is sutured on the back end precisely to "enclose" the tan תן which is the "serpent" תן which "serpent" תן, in the pictograms, is a picture of the serpent, the extended-nun ן preceded by a tav ת which (the tav), broken into its constituent parts (dalet-nun) spells "judgment." The very "serpent" who is wont to "judge," even applying the death-sentence in every case (eventually), the serpent created in his father's image, is "surrounded" by the samech, in the very word "Satan" ס–תן.

The word sagar סגר, if treated to the same Hirschean deconstruction as applied to the name "Satan," produces the same result, thereby suturing Satan, and the original "suture" placed on the human body, i.e., the penile raphe, to the organ inspiring the evil inclination and thus the original sin. In other words, the two letters that follow the samech גר (gimmel-reich) spell "stranger," or "foreigner." The person who worships God everyday, and not just on weekends, brises, marriages, and other ethnicity publicizing days/events, is no doubt aware that Moses taught that the prerequisite for partaking of the Passover, was that no "stranger" or "foreigner," be allowed to partake in the Passover. . . And how does Moses suggest Jews make sure that no "stranger" or "foreigner" partake of the covenant?

Moses denies access to the Passover for anyone who doesn't ritually undo the suture that is Satan. Circumcision is the Ordinance of the Passover. The law of the Passover is that no uncircumcised person may partake. And Moses specifically relates circumcision to the elimination of the "stranger," and the "foreigner."

The very suggestion (Midrash Rabbah) that the suture created at the creation of Eve (Gen. 2:21) is the phallus, the serpent, the angel-of-death (the Talmud connects the three), leads to the fact that the "suture" סגר is flesh that surrounds the "serpent" ס–תן, and that this particular serpent, is the "dragon" or "angel-of-death," Satan.

The quotation from Midrash Rabbah links the first samech, associated with the creation of Eve (the samech is in the word "sagar" speaking of the suture that closes up the area from whence Eve is pulled) with the creation of Satan. In effect, Satan and the suture (sagar) closing up Adam's womb are created simultaneously. In other words, the intuition I've spoken of for some time, stating that the phallus is created in Genesis 2:21, is confirmed by the sages writing in Midrash Rabbah Bere****h.

Strengthening this argument is the fact that the word "Satan" (שתן) actually means to urinate, or to urinate on a wall (Gesenius). Which is to point out that when the sages of Midrash Rabbah Bereshith claim that Satan is created simultaneous to Eve, and that the suture in Genesis 2:21 is related to Satan's creation, and then note immediately subsequent to that . . . that the closing up of Adam's womb (sagar) creates the organ through which Adam urinates (Satan שתן) . . . well . . . shazam ---- only the stiffest of necks (so to say) would be unwilling to bend, or go limp, in light of the limpidness of that foregone conclusion affected specifically by the foregoing.