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Bereshit 2:9-10 tells about HaShem Elohim made to spring up every tree (in Gan Eden) pleasing to the sight, and tov for food and the Etz HaChayim (Tree of Life) also in the midst of Gan Eden, and the Etz HaDa’as Tov v’Rah (knowledge of good and bad). HaShem tells (2:16) Adam explicit not to eat from the fruit of the tree of good and bad. The rest is history, because Adam did eat of it and therefore sinned.
But what exactly was the sin (to disobey, eat, listen to the snake?)?
The type of sin of Adam and Chava is still a sin to this day. Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi explains in Likutei Amarim regarding permissible food that at the moment one indulges in a desire simply to satisfy the craving of ones body, the “kelipas nogah”(literally “shell that shines”) representing the positive potential hidden in that moment is lowered into the “shalosh kelipos hatemeos” (literally “three shells of impurity”) indicating the wickedness of the person in that moment. Likutei Amarim chapter 7 In the case of Adam and Chava eating from the tree wasn’t even a permissible pleasure. The first sin seems to be a series of events connected to pleasure: first Adam and Chava where engaged in pleasure that was holy for the sake of propagating. Later they took their pleasurable pursuits a bit too far in an attempt to become their own deities as Rashi explains in Genesis 3:5. This type of arrogance is also a modern day sin. Once they came off their high horse and realized that they neglected the one thing their creator and benefactor requested of them they felt shame, guilt and fear. See the second Rashi on Genesis 3:7 chapter three of Genesis with Rashi’s commentary
@msh210in your comment. It's in the post that @MonicaCellio linked to.