bereishis

The posuk says:ומעץ הדעת טוב ורע לא תאכל ממנו כי ביום אכלך ממנו מות תמות from the tree of knowledge good & bad don't eat from it for on the day you eat from it you will die. And immediately following, the next posuk says: לא טוב היות האדם לבדו אעשה לא עזר כנגדו it's not good for man to be alone, I will make him a helper alongside him.
We need to understand this. Why right after 'ה commanded him not to eat from the tree of knowledge, did he say he needs a helper? Before he had a restriction he didn't need a helper. The מוהרי"ץ answers that we see by Shabbos we don't allow one person to read alone by candlelight, but if there are two people there then it's allowed for each one will remind the other that it's Shabbos. Here too, as long as there was no command not to do something, he didn't need a helper to help him to stay away from sinning. Once there was a commandment not to eat, he needed a helper to keep him from sinning.
How ironic that the one person that was put there specifically to stop him from sinning, is the one who caused him to sin. How can we understand that? Wouldn't he have been better off without her?
The posuk says: ויהיו שניהם ערומים האדם ואשתו ולא יתבששו they were both naked, the man & his wife, and they weren't embarrassed.
Rashi says they didn't know between good & bad. They had no evil inclination until after they ate from the tree of knowledge. That's when the evil inclination entered them. All the commentators ask on Rashi, if before he ate from the tree of knowledge he didn't have the evil inclination, then why would he eat from the tree of knowledge? What would cause him to rebel against 'ה?
Also, chazal tell us that the whole job of a person in this world is to overcome the evil inclination, so how could it be that אדם didn't have one initially?
Answers ר' חיים וולאזין, that even before the sin, אדם had the choice & will to do good & bad, but the difference was that the evil wasn't inside of him; it was an external force personified by the snake that had to outwardly convince him to sin. It was only after the sin that the forces of evil are part of our very being, & our job is to combat them.
We know the punishment of the snake was that dirt will be his food & the punishment of man was that he will have to work hard for his food. On the surface it seems that the snake got the better deal. His food is abundant and always around, while man has a hard time getting his food. They answer that the reason 'ה gives him his food with no effort, is because he's distancing himself from him; he wants nothing to do with him. However, man, whose quest for bread is a daily struggle, is because 'ה wants man to come to him asking for his help, bringing himself closer to 'ה, constantly trying to rectify the original sin.
Maybe this is why he needed חוה there, for in order for a person to gain that closeness to 'ה, he has to have the constant trial. He has to be able to fight off his evil inclination, be it internal or external. He needs to have the desire to do bad, so that he can choose to do good. So yes, this first time around חוה caused him to do bad, but in order for her to rectify her sin, she will always be there to push him to do good. Had אדם been alone, maybe he wouldn't have sinned this time, but who knows what would have happened next time. Without a wife there to help you turn back, we might never get that closeness to 'ה that's the essence of our very existence. We learn from here to not to be afraid to ask for help & when someone pushes us to do the right thing, embrace it!