why did He create a world with struggle?
Why not just make life easy, filled with blessings without effort? Even before Adam sinned, Torah (Hebrew Bible) says his purpose was to work and protect the garden.
He was placed in paradise, not to relax, but to cultivate it. The Hebrew word for “work,” avodah, contains the word ‘ibud’ – tanning leather. Hard, transforming labor.
The same word used for serving G-d.
From the beginning, human beings weren’t designed for ease. We were designed for meaning. When G-d sent Moses to redeem the Jewish people, He didn’t say, “You’ll be free and comfortable.” He said: “You will serve Me upon this mountain.”
Material freedom wasn’t the goal. Purpose and relationship were. Because through service, we don’t just receive from G-d, we become close to Him.
Every act of effort builds the bond between the Creator and the created. 
and every struggle makes the yearning deeper. Through effort, love stops being a feeling and becomes a relationship. But why would a loving G-d make struggle part of an entire life? Because He didn’t want to give us the bread of shame.
We see in human nature: if one receives an undeserved gift, with absolutely no effort on his part, he feels ashamed to enjoy it.
In the words of the Jerusalem Talmud: “The bride turns aside as she eats.” Because she feels she has not yet had a chance to earn what her husband gives her, ‘ she turns her face in shame.’ So G-d made life this way, not to test us, but to honor us.
He gave us the chance to earn our joy in the world to come, to become partners in creation, to taste goodness without chronic shame.
When you turn effort into purpose, you begin to feel joy in what your own hands helped build.
That’s why we’re here: to make G-d’s goodness ours, through the beauty of our effort.
Jewish secret to transform suffering into blessing: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19orPtLzeM/
The deepest mystery of life explained: https://www.facebook.com/share/14J62PDpFDi/?mibextid=wwXIfr
G-ds love doesn’t change, our awareness does – https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1PLdeBEsdm/
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