seperation

I have been meditating on separation and death. Death is ultimately a separation. That is perhaps, of course, the reason we grieve. We are not so much worried as to where they are(although that is a factor) after death but the dead have become separated from us. When Adam and Chava were warned that on the day they ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil they would "die". That day they became separated from God. God comes to the garden and says "Adam, where are you?" He has to ask that because Adam and Chava began the separation process that God finishes by expelling them from the Garden of Eden.