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Why Would God Create the World - Rabbi Tovia Singer

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Why would God create the world? Obviously, the purpose of the world is for mankind. But why did he need it? If there's nothing you possess that could make God's life better, his eternal It doesn't even make sense. God, therefore, must have created man out of a complete act [clears throat] of love and complete altruistic pure act of love. And if God created you out of a complete act of love,

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