This interface between the artificial and the natural, between Man and God, this boundary between the mundane and the divine, this zone which the Bible denotes as 'choq' where each respective party in covenant with each other delineates that which might belong to the other but which, in fact or in law, does not, or vice versa, the choq is that which might not belong to the other but, in law or in fact, does (in contrast to the 'mishpat' which delineates that which by right unequivocally belongs to each respective party), this interface is where the human impinges on the divine, where hubris and reverence move to the fore, it is where the natural order (the subsidy that is God's grace and providence) is challenged.
That problem of hubris – Man straying outside of his/her domain and impinging into the divine realms – is a matter that rears its head in the Bible right from the start, in the story of Eve and the apple. Eve, as Scripture says, eats the apple to become more like God.
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