CM2 – Lesson 119b – Umanim 4 Para. 1-3 – Creation Incomplete Without Man, Craft as Faith, Mishkan, 39 Types of Work

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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 1. Why did Hashem create the raw materials of wood and metal, for example, and not the table or watch that people need to make from these materials?
03:55 – PARAGRAPH 2. אתערותא דלתתא – “Initiative from below” Hashem created an imperfect world so it could be completed by man.
*13:18 – 18:43 – Why did Hashem create, say, a forest and not finish the job by also creating paper?
15:33 – Creativity is rooted in man’s spiritual task to perfect the world.
19:06 – Spiritual and physical completion of the world are one and the same.
24:48 – PARAGRAPH 3. Everything in creation was made through chochma (wisdom).
33:00 – בנין דישתמודעין לה – The purpose of creation is that Hashem should become revealed and recognized in the world.
41:42 – All the various types of work done by craftsmen are included in the 39 main categories of creative work done to create the mishkan (tabernacle). A craftsman is called uman in Hebrew from the word emunah – faith.
49:24 – The Torah is the creative work of Hashem.
51:49 – Hashem created the world in a way that it’s lacking.
58:33 – אשר ברא אלהים לעשות The final letters of “bara Elokim la’asos” spell emes – truth.