Bereishis 5786 - Adam's Creation is Not Described as 'Tov'

P is bracious created everything and he used the word. So um many many things are um considered and yes we expect is uh whatever he does is good is perfect and so on. The one so does on the second day the kazal say why but the surprising one is that on adam there is no to it's not written keto so true that afterwards it's included in the bria but it's very surprising of all the things that we would expect to be to we expect Adam to be and no mention that. So the ikrim speaks about this and the ikrim um explains on why and he says that and this this is I guess a very very um an important understanding what Adam is. If a person were to say that Adam man is the most perfect of all creations, he he wouldn't be completely right. So there are things that are good as they are. So for instance, if I have if I'm producing a chair, I have a workshop factory workshop producing chairs. When a chair is ready to sit on, it's cut, it's it's it's been screwed together, painted, upholstered, and now it's ready to sit on. That chair is a good chair. Tove means something that fulfills its um purpose. And so we definitely we're going to say to about it everything in the Bria fulfills its purpose. Man was not created that way. Man was created unfulfilled. He was created in a way that he would have to develop into what he would be. Um the the um the the Adam is from Adama. Um the the the the adama is something earth is something that has all the potential in the world but nothing more than that. Um earth is something which is a um it's the building block for everything. It's the place we can grow everything. It's everything is from the earth but the earth itself is just earth. Adam is called that because when he comes into this world he is all potential and no realization. That's what Adam is. So you can't call Odam to as you see this also um it's very interesting by um animals every single animal is born ready to go. It t it takes very little time, relatively little time for an animal from their born to when they're functioning and most of it is spent in basically just achieving the size that they need to achieve. But most most faculties are in place, their instincts and so on. Man is very very different. The length of time it takes for man to grow into into uh a a being is is into anything takes a very long time. He he he's helpless for far longer and takes much longer to mature. It's a percentage of of his of of of his years that he that of his potential lifespan. we spend an awful lot of time um as as a child as as a baby as a child and so on the answer. So that's why Adam can't be called to in the sense that he is not the finished product. It's it's not the chair. It's just just bits and pieces. the um the the um the tlas is it it says by say that you know if if uh that that if a person is does their vote it's as if I count I count you as if you have made yourselves what it means is that in When a person is that means he justifies his own existence and it may be said about him that he gave himself existence that's something that is um unique to Adam and in a certain sense it it by far supersedes the tove of every other being because every other being is to just in the sense that I'm created in a certain way. Adam is to because he was able to create himself and make himself into who he is. Ramal speaks a lot about this that that that wants us to be the most do it he wants us to be do as much as possible. And since selfjustification is, you know, self justification sense just justifying one's own existence is what's true about exists because he exists. It's it's not an external factor. Adam is quote unquote similar in that way that he was meant to be created and justify his own existence. So the tove that we have um in the bria which about everything else is extremely different than the toad. The to the bria deals with things that have a complete form. They're not lacking anything and that for sure applies to everyone. So the word tove in the sense that he is as he is that's something that is not true that Adam has it within himself to create his own existence to make his own to that yes that exists by it's interesting so the the word for instance the word to and ra's behavior doesn't exist we can't say that this animal acted to this animal acted ra because it's instincts. It's all it's all been locked in and and and it does what it does. There's nothing there's nothing that's been um no choices. So every animal follows the script of of its you know genetic material. Adam is the only one who makes a decision and therefore we we can we can um mark out of him as either to or because since he has the ability to to to realize um what's in himself he brings that to about so um the there is a remarkable difference in in the very creation of Adam from Adam to everything around him. Everything around him was created to in the best way possible. Meaning having all the properties that are um appropriate for it in the best way possible that applies to everything. Adamu gave him the the the he did not he did not come to this world with those qualities but he gave him the ability and the um and the direction to develop those qualities himself and that's why ironically ultimately Adam is the only one that you can say to on his existence at his lifetime you can't say that this tree was to or this animal was to their creation was to but from that point onwards no to is realized Adam on his creation we can't say to but if he lives a lifetime and accomplishes that's when we can say it's Christ.