I was reading about the ten sefirot and something caught my eye.
I read that the right side of the Sefirot structure represents harmony and benevolence, as embodied in the Sefirah of Chessed. It is the masculine side.
The Left side is the side of power and strict justice, as embodied in the Sefirah of Din. It is the female side.
The Middle column of the Sefirot structure represents the ideal balance of divine mercy and justice. This harmony is best represented in the Sefirah of Tiferet, which exists midway between the extremes of Din and Chessed, female and male.
(ג) ברא אלהים וְלֹא נֶאֱמַר בָּרָא ה', שֶׁבַּתְּחִלָּה עָלָה בְמַחֲשָׁבָה לִבְרֹאתוֹ בְּמִדַּת הַדִּין, רָאָה שֶׁאֵין הָעוֹלָם מִתְקַיֵם, הִקְדִּים מִדַּת רַחֲמִים וַשִׁתְּפָהּ לְמִהַ"דִּ, וְהַיְינוּ דְכְתִיב בְּיוֹם עֲשֹׂות ה' אֶלֹהִים אֶרֶץ וְשָׁמָּיִם:
ברא אלהים GOD [AS JUDGE] CREATED — It does not state 'ברא ה “The Lord (the Merciful One) created, because at first God intended to create it (the world) to be placed under the attribute (rule) of strict justice, but He realised that the world could not thus endure and therefore gave precedence to Divine Mercy allying it with Divine Justice. It is to this that what is written in (Genesis 2:4) alludes — “In the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven”.
זכר ונקבה ברא אותם וּלְהַלָּן הוּא אוֹמֵר וַיִּקַּח אַחַת מִצַּלְעוֹתָיו וגו' (בראשית ב')? מִדְרַשׁ אַגָּדָה שֶׁבְּרָאוּ שְׁנֵי פַרְצוּפִים בִּבְרִיאָה רִאשׁוֹנָה, וְאַחַר כַּךְ חֲלְקוֹ וּפְשׁוּטוֹ שֶׁל מִקְרָא כַּאן הוֹדִיעֲךָ שֶׁנִּבְרְאוּ שֶׁנֵיהֶם בַּשִּׁשִּׁי וְלֹא פֵי' לָךְ כֵּיצַד בְּרִיָּיתָן, וּפֵירַשׁ לָךְ בְּמָקוֹם אַחֵר:
זכר ונקבה ברא אותם MALE AND FEMALE CREATED HE THEM — And further on (Genesis 2:21) it is said: “and He took one of his ribs etc.” (The two passages appear to be contradictory.) But according to a Midrashic explanation, He created him at first with two faces, and afterwards He divided him. But the real sense of the verse is: here it tells you that both of them were created on the sixth day, but it does not explain to you how their creation took place; this it explains to you in another place (Genesis Rabbah 8:1 and see Eruvin 18a) .
We see that the world was created with Din before Chessed.
We see that Man was created before woman,
however, Kabbalah explains that Din represents the female energy while Chessed represents the male energy.
There is controversy between Rashi and Ramban concerning when God commanded Bnei Yisrael to build the Mishkan, before or after the sin of the golden calf.
Rashi explains that the commandment to build the mishkan was in fact after the sin of the golden calf (ein mukdam umeuchar batorah),
while Ramban argues that the Torah is in chronological order and therefore the sin of the golden calf was prior to the instruction to build the mishkan.
(18) When He finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets of the Pact, stone tablets inscribed with the finger of God.
(1) ויתן אל משה וגו׳ AND HE GAVE UNTO MOSES etc. — There is no “earlier” or “later” (no chronological order) in the events related in the Torah: in fact the incident of the golden calf (related in ch. 31) happened a considerable time before the command regarding the work of the Tabernacle was given (ch. 25 and the following chapters). For on the seventeenth of Tammuz were the Tablets broken (when the people were worshipping the calf) and on the Day of Atonement God became reconciled with Israel (after Moses had prayed 80 days for forgivenness; so that it is very unlikely that the command for the building of the Tabernacle should have been given before that day) and on the next day, the eleventh of Tishri (cf. Rashi on Exodus 33:11, at end of comment on ושב אל המחנה), they began to bring their contributions for the Tabernacle which was set up on the first of Nisan. (From the seventeenth of Tammuz until the eleventh of Tishri are almost three months — ימים רבים) (Midrash Tanchuma, Ki Tisa 31).
If we go according to rashi, There must be a reason that the torah is written in this order if chronologically it did not take place in this order…The reason is that Bnei Yisrael's teshuva (the Mishkan) was created before they even sinned.
We learn that before creating the world Hashem created teshuvah (repentance).
והא תניא שבעה דברים נבראו קודם שנברא העולם אלו הן תורה ותשובה גן עדן וגיהנם כסא הכבוד ובית המקדש ושמו של משיח תורה דכתיב (משלי ח, כב) ה' קנני ראשית דרכו וגו' תשובה דכתיב (תהלים צ, ב) בטרם הרים יולדו ותחולל וגו' (תהלים צ, ג)
But isn’t it taught in a baraita: Seven phenomena were created before the world was created, and they are: Torah, and repentance, the Garden of Eden, and Gehenna, the Throne of Glory, and the Temple, and the name of the Messiah. The Gemara provides sources for each of these phenomena. Torah was created before the world was created, as it is written: “The Lord made me as the beginning of His way, the first of His works of old” (Proverbs 8:22). Based on the subsequent verses, this is referring to the Torah. Repentance was created before the world was created, as it is written: “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God” (Psalms 90:2), and it is written immediately afterward: “You return man to contrition; and You say: Repent, children of man” (Psalms 90:3).
Our knowledge is limited and we cannot link certain realities.
Previously I thought that Hashem created the world with judgement and than realised it was a 'mistake', so He created it with mercy as well.
Previously I thought that Hashem created man first and then realised it was a 'mistake' so He created woman.
By linking Rashi and Ramban's commentary on the order of the Mishkan and Chet Haegel with Nedarim, the idea of Hashem creating in perfect harmony, knowing the exact outcome before it happens, is clear. According to Rashi, the Torah mentions the Mishkan before Chet HaEgel in order to show that The remedy of the sin was created before the sin itself.
Just like teshuva was created before the world itself because Hashem is aware that we will sin. So too, Hashem created the female energy first, knowing that after He creates man, He will create female.