Another matter, “God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good” –Rabbi Tanḥuma began: “He made everything beautiful in its time” (Ecclesiastes 3:11) – Rabbi Tanḥuma said: The world was created at its proper time; the world was not fit to be created before then. Rabbi Abbahu said: From here we learn that the Holy One blessed be He continuously created worlds and destroyed them, until He created the current ones, and said: This one pleases me, those did not please Me. Rabbi Pinḥas said: Rabbi Abbahu’s source: “God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good” – this pleases me, those did not please Me.2“Behold” implies that there was a new, improved situation that had not been there before.