The World Created for a Single Righteous One

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 5:1

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Rabbi Eleazar said: Even for the sake of a single righteous person the world was created, as it is said, "And God saw the light, that it was good" (Genesis 1:4). And "good" means nothing other than the righteous one, as it is said, "Say of the righteous one that it shall be good" (Isaiah 3:10).

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