Fixer Upper

When G-d created the world, he left it incomplete. He left some things for people to be able to come and fix up so that they could be his partners in creation. G-d wanted us to feel what he feels as the creator of the world. That's the greatest gift that one could ever receive, to feel like G-d. The mitzvot are the ways of fixing the world that G-d had in mind. Each time someone does a mitzvah, it changes the world a little bit from the way it was into the way G-d wants it to be. It places another brick toward the completion of G-d's creation. When all the work is done, the world will be perfect. This is called the time of Moshiach. Then we won't do mitzvot to fix the world. We will do mitzvot because that will be the natural order of things.