Based on a lecture By Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller which can be found here . The first major tragedy in history was when Adam ate the fruit and internalized confusion. Prior to that sin, confusion was external, but after the sin the confusion was internalized. Man went from an objective reality of true and false to an often confused subjective reality of good and evil. Much of the negativity in the world is due to this confusion, where collective mankind brings upon itself tragedies such as h