“Then Isaac prayed to the Eternal:
King of the World, when You created light, You said in Your
Torah that it was good;
When You made the expanse of heaven and earth, You said in
Your Torah that they were good;
And of every herb You made, and every beast, You said that
they were good;
But when You made us in Your image You did not say of us in
Your Torah that humanity was good.
Why Lord?
And God answered him:
Because you I have not perfected,
Because through the Torah you are to perfect yourselves
And to perfect the world.
All other things are completed; they cannot grow.
But humankind is not complete: you have yet to grow.
Then I will call you good.”
-Gates of Prayer
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