And God saw that it was good

נמצאו 2 תוצאות חיפוש

1. And God Saw that it Was Good

   Rabbi Chanoch Waxman

   The statement "and God saw that it was good" is absent from the creation of man. Soon after man's creation, the reader discovers that man reveals that the "impulse of the thoughts of his heart was only evil (ra) all the day." Why couldn't man be created good?

2. Creation: How Good is Very Good?

   Rabbi Yaakov Beasley

   At the end of the creation, we find that God is surveying His handiwork, and things are less than they appeared at first.  What has changed?  Are we forced to conclude that the addition of mankind has diminished God’s handiwork?

    Man alone is capable of veering away from its designated purpose.  Paradoxically, it is precisely due to this freedom — that man is made “be-tzelem Elokim,” “in the image of God” — that the human being is incomplete and therefore cannot be called good.   Creation ends with an indeterminate and ambiguous ending.  The question of how mankind will utilize its freedom and capabilities begins.