This book answers the first questions about the Supreme. They could ask the children, but difficult to answer them, and the man made wise in the Torah.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
From the Editor .................................. 7 About the author of this book ........................... 9 The world has a Creator ............................ 15 Paradoxes .................................. 29 He - the Most Merciful, and the world is full of suffering. Why?. . .48 Freedom of choice ............................. 71 On the immortality of the soul and ........................... 93 On the revival of the dead ....................... 112 On the purpose of Creation ............................. 123
A fragment from the book:
Of course, there is a limit beyond which the questions are meaningless. Until the end we do not understand either the divine purpose of Creation, nor even he himself. There is something known only to himself. All that we can say about it - that he had his reasons for Creation, as the prophet says: "Everyone who is called my name - I am in my glory, created, I created it and I did it" (Yeshayahu, 43 7). When God speaks of His "glory," we are not in a position to understand the scale of values by which to measure this glory is beyond human understanding. Divine purpose concerning us, the people, can we call good. But his internal motivation, as they are related to Himself - entirely beyond our understanding.
Highest expression of intent in creating this world was the Torah, which was the matrix of all creation. God Himself calls the Torah good, referring to King Solomon: "I give you good doctrine, do not leave my Torah" (Proverbs 4:2). Our sages explain that the Torah - God's plan for the good of the universe: "There is no good without the Torah."
This plan and led to the creation of the world God. Good can not be given until there is no one to take it. The Midrash expresses this very clearly: the Almighty Thor asked whether to create His universe. And Thor said, "If the king is not the subjects over whom he is the king?"
Thus, the Midrash teaches us that in the beginning God created the Torah, and then she told him to create the world.
This means that as soon as God sent the design of good talent, it became necessary to create a world that would take it well. We can say that God has led to the creation of the world His own plan.
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