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635) Happy are all those who engage in the Torah, since when the Creator created the world, He looked in the Torah and created the world. The world was created with the Torah, as it is written, “And I was beside Him an Amon [apprentice].” Do not pronounce it, Amon, but Oman [craftsman], for the Torah is the craftsmanship of the world.
636) Is the Torah a craftsman? Yes. It is like a king who wished to make a palace. If he does not take a craftsman for himself, he cannot make the palace. Once the palace is made, it does not bear the name of the craftsman, but the name of the king, for they say, “These are the palaces that the king made,” since the king gave the thought into these palaces.
637) Similarly, when the Creator wished to create the world, He looked at the craftsman, the Torah, and although the craftsman made the palace, it bears only the name of the King, for they say, “These are the palaces that the King made.” Of course the King made the palace.
The Torah cries out, “And I was beside Him an Amon [apprentice],” the Creator created the world with me, for before the world was created, the Torah came 2,000 years before the world. And when the Creator wished to create the world, He looked in the Torah with each and every word, and made craftsmanship in the world correspondingly, since all the things and deeds of the worlds are all in the Torah. This is why the Creator looked in her and created the world.
638) It is not that the Torah created the world, but the Creator created the world by looking in the Torah. It follows that the Creator is the craftsman and the Torah is His apprentice, as it is written, “And I was beside Him an Amon [apprentice].” It does not say, “I was an apprentice,” but “Beside Him,” for because the Creator looked in her, she was an apprentice for Him.
639) Who can be an apprentice beside the Creator? Rather, the Creator’s looking was in the way that is written in the Torah, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” He looked in this word and created the heaven. It is written in the Torah, “And God said, ‘Let there be light.’” He looked in this word and created the light. And so it was with each and every word that is written in the Torah: the Creator looked, and did that thing. This is why it is written, “And I was beside Him an Amon [apprentice],” as the whole world was created.
640) When the world was created, not a thing existed before there was the desire to create man, so he will engage in Torah, and thanks to that, the world existed. Now, anyone who looks in the Torah and engages in it, seemingly sustains the entire world. The Creator looked in the Torah and created the world; man looks in the Torah and sustains the world. It follows that the work and the keeping of the entire world is the Torah. For this reason, happy is he who engages in the Torah, for he sustains the world.
641) When the Creator wished to create man, he stood before Him in his form and existence as he is in this world. Even all the people, before they come into this world, they stand in their existence and correction as though they are in this world, in one treasure where there are all the souls of the world clothed in their form.
642) When they are destined to come down to this world, the Creator calls a certain appointee, under whom the Creator appointed all the souls that are destined to come down to this world, and tells him, “Go, bring me the spirit of so and so.” Then that soul comes clothed in the form of this world, and that appointee shows her to the holy King.
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