Lekutey Halakhos Shiur with Rabbi Nasan Maimon - September 6, 2026

that all work and all craftsmanship and all business that's conducted down here on earth is all about us human beings, that Hashem has left it for us to complete the creation that Hashem began.

And it requires being able to separate the good from the bad.

As we explained over there.

And Rav Nassim Zahar also connected it to the mitzvah of Mila.

That there were apikursim that asked, what's going on here? Are you saying that Hashem didn't do a good job? Are we going in and fixing what Hashem did? And the answer was yes, 100%.

That just like when it comes to bread and things like that, Hashem didn't finish it.

Hashem, we have to take wheat, we have to plow the earth, we have to plant, we have to do all kinds of procedures to be able to produce it.

So too regarding a human being, a male, that Hashem left it for us to complete the creation of the child through the bris milah.

Based on what I heard from Rabbeinu Zal, I am shown.

Now note, he says, means he's writing this while Rabbeinu Zal is living.

Rabbeinu Zal started writing the Halacha Alephs while Rabbeinu Zal was living.

And this is why the Gemara says that work is very, very special.

It's a very good thing.

Whereby Hashem commanded Klal Yisrael to work.

Because it's something very important and it's a major tikkun.

Because by doing it, we extract and we refine and elevate the bud.

And we complete the work that Hashem did.

Which was not complete until the person that did it.

Let's say to make cups and plates and things like that.

Hashem didn't create plates.

And yet he wants us to eat like a mensch from a plate with a cup.

And here again, a craftsman who works with wood or other things to be able to make these kelim, he's completing what Hashem began.

The passage says you should work for six days, and on the seventh day is Shabbos.

Why? Because Hashem created the world in six days.

Why does the Torah say work for six days? The mitzvah is to keep Shabbos.