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Radak on Genesis : Creation, Humanity, and Torah ■ 129 This set of forms ] is fittingly called a the respective functions of those creations . 6 [ garden, because a garden contains species of trees and vegetables that differ from one another . 7 “And there he placed the human whom he had formed” – He placed the human whom he had formed “of dust from the earth” ( Gen 2 : 7 ) —i . e . , from the cleanest matter on the earth—into the garden, making him the most elevated of the lower After all, the human possesses a faculty that is forms [ that the garden comprises ] . 8 He is therefore the focal point of the garden, and derived from the Active Intellect . 9 he remains planted in that Eden - like Intellect if he works the garden and protects it cf . 2 : 15 ) . 10 ( See my introductory essay concerning the Separate Intellects and the role of the Active Intellect . 6 According to Radak, whereas mi - qedem here literally means “in the east,” on the esoteric level it bears the alternative mean...
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