[Avodah] shattering of vessels...why not pleasing??

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 02:29:16PM -0700, Harvey Benton wrote:
: according to this site, the vessels of tohu (medrash) did not please
: Hashem, although they serve a purpose (e.g. in order to be
: destroyed)... if so, why were : they created?

: http://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/380568/jewish/Shattered-Vessels.htm

Your quote answers your question:

: Thus Tohu was a primordial form of existence that "was created in order to be 
: destroyed, and destroyed in order to be rebuilt" in a superior form(see Mevo 
: L'Chachmat HaKabbala part 2, shaar 6, ch. 7)...

As R' Kook would put it, the general concept of evolution was built
into the process of creation. Hashem created iteratively... Creation is
inherently imperfect, because our being betzelem E-lokim is meaningless
without our having an opportunity to play a role in its perfection. Thus,
it's repeatedly rebuilt a new, one plane better than the prior. And
built through the elevation of the previous, even less perfect, pieces
of what came before.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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