The handiwork of every wise heart now assembled, and the tabernacle erected, heaven once again rested upon the earth.

“I have come back into My garden,” G‑d said, “the place I most desired from the beginning.”

The angels were confounded. They had sung praises to their Creator in sublime harmony since the outset of existence. There was no jealousy or unpleasantness amongst them, only love and brotherhood. No ignorance, no confusion, only revelation and clear vision.

They looked down upon our world of savage atrocities, of cruelty between man and man, of blindness to the most obvious of truths, a place where each thing grabs its place and refuses to yield to another, and they said, "This place He desires? This He calls a garden of pleasure? This is the lowest of all possible worlds, the ultimate descent of His Holy Light! Absolute darkness! And this He chose for His holy dwelling?"

The Almighty replied, “I began with Infinite Light. Within that light, I imagined the shadows of many beings. I withdrew the light so that the shadows could become real. And they are you and your worlds, sustained by a delicate injection of a sliver of a reflection of the primal light. Each world is lower than the next, the light successively diminished with many filters and contractions.”

“Do I then have a need for the descent of light? Is there anything your worlds can provide Me?”

“Rather, I created your world out of a desire of My essential being, and with a purpose that burns like a flame within each thing: that Infinite Light should meet with Absolute Darkness, and in their marriage My Essence will be found.”

“And that can only occur in the lowest of all worlds, in a simple, sincere deed of a common human being.”

This is what is stated in the ancient Midrash: The ultimate purpose of creation of all worlds, upper and lower, is that the Holy One, blessed be He, desired a home in the lowest of all worlds.