Gênesis 1:31 Cabalá: Zohar, Pardes Rimmonim & Sha'arei Orah

It is written: “And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good” (Gen. 1, 31). The “living God” (Elohim Hayyim) purposed to give us light and to care for us in His Providence; and in His creation all are united, above and below, the “Right Side” and the “Left Side”, the angel of life and the angel of death: all are part of His plan, and it is “very good”; it is all part of the same mystic doctrine, apprehended by those who contemplate the mystery of wisdom.

We are now obliged to clarify the usefulness of this Shell and its interests in the world, because to say that it is to punish or etc. will not suffice. For the whole object of punishment is asked, it is the evil inclination and the Shell, there will be no Shell and there will be no evil inclination. And it is said that the reason for their creation. in the will of the Creator, is to be that the world and its creatures needed to receive their sustenance and livelihood by the power of law and justice and righteousness, and if they were all non-elective angels in their actions, the world would not benefit from their actions, because they are forced act as angels. And for this reason, man must have a choice, and be inhabited by the evil inclination and the good inclination, that if he, by his own nature, would want to incline towards good, his evil inclination, Samael, would incline him to evil on his left; and when he wants to incline towards evil, on his right will be his good inclination to guilt him, and remind him of the words of his Creator in such a way that he will be rewarded for the inclination, good or bad. And to judge a man according to his deeds, it is necessary that he have aspects which are unclean – as like a slave who rebels against his master – to torment the wicked, so that his wickedness and evils in their numbers will cling to wickedness on its proper side, and so he will receive punishment. This matter is clarified well in the Zohar. All of what the Holy One, Blessed be He, caused Himself to go down in order to show all honorable rituals. (stopped at וכי מאן חמי עבדא)

Having spoken thus, the old man wept again and said: ‘Old man, old man, did I not say that thou hadst plunged into the midst of the great sea? Now thou art indeed in the very midst of the mighty waves! Old man, old man, thou hast none to blame but thyself; hadst thou remained silent at the beginning all would have been well with thee, but now thou mayest not, and there is none to take hold of thine hand! Thou art alone. But arise, old man, and take courage!