Commentaire de citation sur La Genèse 3:19

This is also the meaning of the bracha "Who created you in din and made you die in din", according to the nature of creation expressed in God's words to Adam "for dust you are, and to dust you will return". (See H.D. 2:9, 3:19.) In H.D. Bamidbar 16:16 we explain based on the Gemara in Moed Katan 16a that the laws of the Torah are the source of the laws of nature by which the world was created and is sustained so that both are therefore called din. This is the meaning of the saying of chazal (based on Bereshit Rabbah 12:15) "God first created His world with din (justice) and when He saw that it would not survive He combined rahamim (mercy) with din". This does not imply that God changed His mind. Creation was according to absolute justice but the continuing conduct of the world was not possible under strict justice, which demands punishment for every violation of the laws of the Torah, unless mercy is included also. God knew before creation that this would be necessary.

"To a place, etc.": And he did not say, "he will be dust, worms, and maggots." As so did the verse (Genesis 3:19) say, "as you are dirt and you will return to the dirt" - Derekh Chaim.

TO A PLACE OF DUST AND WORMS. The mishna does not say that one becomes dust, as per the language of the verse, “for you are⁸⁸Presently. The mishna does not say that one becomes dust in adherence to the language of the verse, which characterizes a person as alreading being dust. dust, and to dust you shall return” (Genesis 3:19)—Maharal in Derech Chaim.

וייצר AND GOD FORMED — Here the letter yod is written twice to intimate that there were two formations — a formation of man for this world, and a formation of man for resurrection; in the case of animals, however, which will not stand after death for judgment before God the word referring to their formation— ויצר —(Genesis 2:19) is not written with two yods (Midrash Tanchuma, Tazria 1).