“The blessed Creator is the very essence of good. It is the nature of good to bestow good. This is why the Lord created men, so that He could bestow good upon them. For where there is no receiver, there is no bestowal of good. In His sublime wisdom, however, He knew that for this good to be complete it should be received as the fruits of one’s labor. For then the recipient would feel himself the proprietor of that good and would not be shamefaced in receiving it, as if he were receiving charity. As it is said: ‘One who does not eat of his own is ashamed to look at his benefactors’ (Yerushalmi, Orla 1:3).”

- The Ramchal, The Knowing Heart