S o much of our time is spent on food preparation. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if challah kugels and desserts would grow from the ground ready to be plucked and eaten? While this may seem like fantasy the Gemara tells us that in asid lavo in the future world rolls will sprout from the ground in Eretz Yisrael.
Certainly the Creator could have fashioned our world in a way that there would be no need for the long drawn-out process of planting harvesting grinding wheat into flour forming it into dough and baking. Challah bread and baked goods could have all been created as finished products.
As we know everything in the physical world has a parallel in the spiritual world.
The Raw Materials
In the physical world Hashem provides the raw materials and we need to go through the arduous process of using those raw materials to create a finished product. In the ruchniyus world as well Hashem provides each individual with the raw materials — his unique middos and personality traits. Every person then needs to go through the difficult process of developing and refining those traits until he makes himself into an adam shaleim a complete and perfected individual.
