It’s a world that depends only on the d’var Hashem for each detail; the Word of Hashem that caused every detail to come into being and that continues to cause everything to exist. It means that it’s a world that is being created right now the same as it was by Maaseh Bereishis.
Now you’re not going to acquire too much of a mind if you just say the words without thinking. You have to think about what you’re saying – that just like He caused everything to come into existence, He keeps it in existence. He didn’t make it and then let it remain. No. Every second it exists because He says it, “Let it continue to be!” The world only exists because Hashem wants it to continue to exist.
That’s what you’re thinking. That everything is nothing but His will. Your boss and your competitors. Your friends and your neighbors and your enemies. The Italian mafia man who wants his money. Hakadosh Baruch Hu is willing them into existence. They’re all His imagination.
Not only all the materials, objects and people of the world but all phenomena in the world; whatever happens in the world is His will. That’s the real meaning of briyas ha’olam yesh me’ayin, that because it’s all His imagination, His will, so even when it’s Vayechulu and it looks like everything is running on its own, actually Hashem is directing everything. He made everything from scratch and He continues to make everything and therefore it’s all under His full control.
