Why Didn’t God Call Man “Good”? | Rabbi Yaniv Meirov

When God created the entire world, everything that Hashem God created, he said to Hashem ki tov and behold it was good. Everything was good. The trees and the plants and the animals, everything was good. But when it came to mankind, creating us human beings, the Torah doesn't testify Hashem ki tov that we were good. How could it be? The animals are good, the plants are good and we human beings are not good. And the rabbis say something really really powerful and that is that the animals and the plants and everything that God Almighty created, it is what it is. The way it came into this world is the way it's leaving the world. The animals and the cats and the and the trees, everything out there didn't have to work and look for the kosher symbol when when they eat. They don't have to work on their jealousy or their anger. They don't have to work on anything. So they are what they are and they're good. On the other hand, us human beings, mankind, we need to prove that we are good. We have to come into this world, we have challenges and tests and all that we have to overcome them. And once we overcome them in this world, which is the first door, which is the corridor, which is the hallway for the next world, then we could go and be pronounced by God that we were good. So this is a message for every single one of us. We're here to work. We have to work on ourselves to become better people, not to be status quo and just go with the flow and not another Joe Schmoe like most of the world is. We have a mission and we have so much potential and we have the Torah we need to follow Torah mitzvot maasim tovim. We have to do good deeds and we have to do more Torah mitzvot. And every single one of us doing so, we should be we should merit to be stamped with having a good iron name.