You cannot have questions before you understand the material. I know those three chapters; I have read them and reread them for 30 years. How in one night did you go through all three, as well as the notes?

It is not acceptable to say that you understand them with the caveat "at least superficially." There is no such thing as superficial understand - that is an unacceptable oxymoron. It is acceptable to understand with ever deeping levels - but not with superficiality.

When I suggested that you reread the chapters, I meant that you read them and settle them in your mind. I do not believe that after one evening you have done that. And hence all of your questions?

>...then everything that happens or exists, whether we
>perceive it as bad or good must be good and perfect. Is that correct?

Of course not. How could that possibly be? How could it be that the murder of innocent children is "good and perfect"?

>Yet, if I eat a ham and cheese sandwich, G-d creates it, and me, and my
>inclination to eat it...

Before you ask, at least think! Eating, as with any act, is a choice. G-d gave you free choice.

>...contrary to Torah, and therefore His Will, and yet since all of it is still
>in existence, does He cause creation against His Will? If so, is that
>which is against His Will still good and perfect? Is it more good or
>perfect when I don't eat the treif sandwich?

I am sorry to be short with you, Shoshana, but these questions are nonsense. You can do better than this. I have always encouraged you to ask the hard questions. But these are not hard questions. These are thoughtless - without depth.

>Enough to start with?

No. Not at all. Not a good start in the least. Maybe you need to take a look at what you want to accomplish here, or not.

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