In R. Jonathan Sacks’ 2012 essay for Parashat Beraishit, “Why Were We Created?” (Covenant & Conversation | Bereishit | Why Were We Created? | Rabbi Sacks), he asks the fundamental question that has plagued religious thinkers down through the ages. Reading the bible closely, after other creations, the Tora states: (v. 4, 12, 18,21, 25, and culminating in v. 31) “and God Saw that it was (very) good;” however, when He Created humanity, no such approbation appears. In place of the statement that there was inherent goodness in man’s creation, we encounter:
Beraishit 1:26
And God Said: Let us Make man in Our Image, after Our Likeness… Continue reading
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