Dear Rabbi Essas!

Please answer my two questions:

For what purpose did Hashem (the Almighty) create the world? Why did He need us? Of course, I understand that we cannot fully understand the Creator's plan, but still, our sages probably offered possible answers.

Why did Hashem give the Torah only almost two thousand years after the Creation? What happened that suddenly a written code of laws was needed?

Thank you in advance for your answers,

Avrom

USA

With all the considerable, it must be said, capabilities of man - spiritual and intellectual, we are not able to even fully imagine His Plan. This is where our fundamental difference from the Creator of the world is manifested. His Will "extends" from the highest floors of the spiritual worlds - to our world, observed and felt. Conventionally speaking, if we consider our world to be the "first floor", then, having applied even the maximum possible, colossal efforts - spiritual (deep study of the Torah in all its aspects and fulfillment of the commandments) and intellectual (systematic studies and optimal development of innate talents) - we will be able to get an idea of the structure of, say, five (twenty or sixty - depending on the system of dividing the World into "layers") floors. But the Will, Goal and Plan will be even higher, and none of us will be able to understand their meaning - they are incomprehensible. This is also mentioned in our books, where some floors (also not all, not the highest!) are called “reisha delo-ityada” (which in translation means “incomprehensible heights”).

Now let’s move on to the second question: why was the Torah given two thousand years after the Creation of the World (more precisely, in 2448).

The first man, Adam, was endowed with a soul capable of choosing the right path to approach the Creator. However, he made a mistake known to all…

Adam's descendants - his sons, sons of sons, etc. - still possessed this potential. But, not always as they should have, using the freedom of choice given to man by the Almighty, they brought about breakdowns in their souls and reduced their potential. Two "corrective actions" of Heaven (the Great Flood and the destruction of the Tower of Babel), on the one hand, brought about some purification, on the other - prepared the ground for humanity to realize that "it is impossible to live like this any longer."

But not everyone was yet ready to receive and accept the “rules of conduct” (that is, the Torah), which greatly limited a person in his actions.

When the events related to the construction and subsequent destruction of the Tower of Babel unfolded, Abraham was 48 years old. And it was he who was the first to realize at that time that the existence of the world would lose its meaning if humanity did not receive, assimilate and pass on to its descendants the Wisdom of the Creator. For human souls had become too “small”.

About four centuries later, the descendants of Abraham (that is, the Jewish people) were already ready to receive very difficult “rules of conduct.”

Here, naturally, only a simplified “diagram” of the events associated with the receipt of the Torah is given (a more detailed discussion of it is beyond the scope of this answer).

One way or another, but the Creator revealed and granted us His Wisdom. And we swore "not to part" with this gift forever and ever. And while this oath is not broken, the world continues to exist. And, despite the fact that there are "breakdowns" in our souls, it even moves forward. Through ups, downs, catastrophes and great insights.

We also know the maximum period, no later than which the culmination of the Unity of Creation with the Creator will come. This is the six-thousandth year from the Creation of the world.

Lyricist Eliyahu Essas