After completing each creation God saw “that it was good” and after completing the whole of creation “that everything He made was very good.” All was complete and perfect – except for just one thing: “It is not good for man to be alone.” Cosmic goodness was in jeopardy, hinging on the rectification of this problem, and indeed, Rashi teaches, man’s very relationship with God depended on this matter. Why?

The relationship between the sexes has a secret purpose of the highest order: knowledge of God. For only through knowing another person – a completely separate, other consciousness – can the mind expand to know the Ultimate Other, God. Without another person, man would remain trapped forever in the narrow confines of his own mind; only seeing things from his limited, selfish perspective, he would never see God and His goodness.

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