Three-Step Process — Rabbeinu Tam's three steps #Shorts

So, you ask, "Well, then God is deficient if he doesn't create the world?" No, it's only because he decided that reality is greater than potential, and that thereby created the names Boyre and Elohim. And now, in order to attain that added perfection, he has to create the world. So, the order of operations, as Rabbeinu Tam explains it, is that God willed reality to be greater than potential. That carved out certain names, Boyre and Elohim. And now, God is compelled, because he wanted to, to create the world. So, it's a three-step process. God willed that reality is greater than potential. That carves out his names, and now God is compelled to create the world.