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Radak on Genesis : Creation, Humanity, and Torah ■ 27 Then at the end, God sees that text declares that “God saw that it was good . ” 28 “everything he had made was very good” ( Gen 1 : 31 ) . Maimonides, for his part, construes this “goodness” in line with his position on the question of purpose . In the case of some creations, he explains, their very existence amounts to a fulfillment of God’s will . All creations, moreover, work together to maximize and perpetuate that desired existence . 29 For Radak, by contrast, creations are good because they benefit human beings, whose recognition of God constitutes the purpose of the world . Fittingly, therefore, only after the creation of humans does God regard everything to be very good : In [ the Torah’s account of ] the creation of human beings, it makes a general reference to “everything [ God ] had made,” declaring that all of it is good . [ It does this ] because all the lower creations attained completeness [ only ] with the creation o...
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