This episode presents Rabbi Reinman’s views, based on the Talmud and the Rambam, on the purpose of creation and the role of people in the created world.
Chapter 4: The Purpose of Creation
Before we can study the patterns of history and determine the forces that drive it, we have to identify the purpose of its existence. Coming from the House of Classical Judaism, we know that God created the world, but why did He create it? God is perfect. He has no needs, no wants in the human sense that derive from a void that must be filled. What then was His purpose in creating the world? What is the ultimate goal of creation?
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