In Pirkei Avos it explains that Hashem could have created the world with one utterance. He chose, however, to create it with ten utterances in order to reward those who fulfill His will and punish those who don't.
Why are reward and punishment connected to the number of utterances at Creation?
Hashem in his Oneness is all good - חסד. The infinite goodness represented by One would have created a world in which there was no choice but to do good. Good would be the only thing that existed. It was only by the means of ten utterances, the creation of multiplicity, that there became room for something other than goodness in the world. And only in a world where there are options to do good or otherwise, is there room for reward and punishment.
Why are reward and punishment connected to the number of utterances at Creation?
Hashem in his Oneness is all good - חסד. The infinite goodness represented by One would have created a world in which there was no choice but to do good. Good would be the only thing that existed. It was only by the means of ten utterances, the creation of multiplicity, that there became room for something other than goodness in the world. And only in a world where there are options to do good or otherwise, is there room for reward and punishment.
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