Rabbipedia

Welcome to Rabbipedia
Rabbipedia is a collaborative wiki about Rabbis and Halacha that anyone can edit! It is meant to be ecumenical across the movements of Judaism.

An Encyclopedia Rabbinica
This is an attempt at an encyclopedia that focuses on Rabbis and the halachic process, one that anyone can edit. We still have a say in certain aspects of Jewish law. Similarly the wiki concept is so appealing due to the fact that while it is eternally recorded intact in our history, we can still make changes in something eternally changing but also staying the same.

(From Valley2city's user page on Wikipedia)
When Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden they suddenly developed the ability to know things and to be self-aware. This came at the cost of mortality and decay, that humans would have to toil for their natural lives which would be drastically shortened from eternity to much less. Pain, sorrow, and death are introduced into the world, in exchange for the blissful innocent ignorance. I have posed the question to my students, friends, colleagues, and teachers that "if you were in the position of Adam or Eve and given the choice of whether or not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge, knowing the ramifications, would you eat"? Nine times out of ten the answer I have received is "yes".

Increasing knowledge is one of the greatest things given to humanity. I do not believe that there is any sin in what Adam and Eve did. Rather, I believe God placed it in front of them so that they would eat of it. "The sum of human knowledge is the fear of God", writes Ben Sira. It is this for reason that I find Wikiing so noble a cause and so vital a pursuit. One person cannot know even a small fraction of all knowledge; yet through this collaborative effort, perhaps we can get that much closer to true enlightenment.

And as Rabbi Yehuda ben Teima writes in Pirkei Avot 5:23, "Be bold as the leopard".