ROMANS 8:19-22 ... For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. Comment: The human being and creation in the vision of the Izhbitzer: The Ishbitzer Rebbe (Rabbi Mordechai Yoseph Lainer of Izhbitza, 1800-1854) provides us with a wondrous teaching about the relationship between human beings and the rest of the living creatures. In Breishit 1:26, we read Vayomer Elokim naase Adam, “And God said let us make man”. Why us in the plural?! Rashi comments that God was planning man’s creation together with the angels. However, the Izhbitzer, in his classic Mei Hasheloah, published about the same time than the Darwin’s “Origin of Species”, writes: In the beginning, God created all the creations. Then the creations understood their limitation that they did not have anyone to unite their life with the Holy One, and that by means of man all the stages of creation (encapsulated in the Ten Sayings of Creation) will be united with the Creator, and that the inanimate will give its power to the plants and the plants to the animals and the animals to man, so that man will worship with his power the Holy One. When the creations saw what they were lacking, they used their power from below to cause an arousal from Above for the creation of man. And Elokim said Let us make man,” and the Holy One told the creations that all of them give of their power to contribute to the creation of man, so that man will have a part of all of them, so that if man will be in need, they will all help him because when it is bad for man it is bad to all creatures like in the generation of the flood, and when is good for man is good for all creatures as well. So what is the Izhbitzer saying? First, he is saying that man is the culmination of the creative process. Second, that all the rest of creation, the inanimate, the plants and the animals were waiting as it were for the creation of man, so that they could fulfill their need to praise their Creator. Third, the most amazing teaching of the Izhbitzer is that all creatures contribute to the creation of man, answering God’s invitation: “naase Adam.” From: torahscience.org/natsci/evolution.htm
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