Wise Fridays: Even Gnats and Flies

“The Rabbis said: Even though you may think them superfluous in this world, creatures such as flies, bugs, and gnats have their allotted task in the scheme of creation, as it says, ‘And God saw everything that God had made, and behold, it was very good.'”

B’reishit Rabbah, 10:7

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