What Is the Purpose of Nature and Creation?

By Prof Georges Mendelbaum

Nature is a dwelling place for man and history, For this, nature gives the necessary geography For man to progress in brotherhood, And the future goal is the moral redemption. The Genesis stories of the Torah from the beginning Reveal the wisdom of God in nature, Even before men multiplied in the world, And before God gave them His laws. In the first generations the attempts of fraternity Were not successful: Cain could not live with Abel as a brother, And in the end their arguments ended in murder! For generations, humans remain violent, As it is written before the flood “The evil of men was growing”1 They were to be erased under the own rules of nature2 And God sent the flood on all the earth, Only for Noah, the Lord overcame His anger. From where does this fury of violence come? It leads inevitably to self-destruction of whole human societies? Even societies for which “love” is the main ideal! This is amazing but it is a fact that their end is fatal. It happens because of their lack in morality, They fall, like Cain, because of their incapacity To live in fraternity, leading to violence and calamity. In our days the same problem continues effectively: Disconnecting the Torah from nature and history, And separating the religious practice from morality. In the story of Cain and Abel, Cain thinks that he is the source, the brave, the primary, And Abel his brother is only secondary. He says: I don’t need a brother So in the end he became a murderer. After that, in the text of the Torah, the word ‘brother’ is no longer mentioned, Only in the days of Lemech it is recorded When he gave birth to brothers and a sister: as workers and laborers3 ,

1 (Genesis 6,5) “ And the Lord saw that the evil of men was growing on the earth and that all their thoughts were always towards evil“ 2 (Genesis 6,11)” all the earth was corrupted in front of God and all the earth was full of violence” 3 (Genesis 4, 20-22): “Ada gave birth to Yaval, ancestor of the shepherds living in tents, the name of his brother was Yuval, etc.