Partners With God

Another small excerpt from this book, (page 159):

"There's a riddle in the Talmud that goes like this, 'If God intended man to live on bread, why didn't he create a bread tree?' And the answer is that, in fact, God could have created a tree that produced crusty loaves of bread, but he prefers to offer us a grain and invite us to buy a field and plant the see. He prefers that we till the soil while He sends the rain. He prefers that we harvest the crop while He sends sunshine. He prefers that we grind the grain and knead it and bake it while He gives us air in our lungs and strength in our arms. Why? Because He would rather we become partners with Him in creation."