How can you ask Him?

I have no idea.

I think the questioner wanted to know what the possible answers to this question are from the perspective of Judaism. If you phrase the question that way, you can get a bit closer to actually arriving at an answer than by addressing the Higher Authority directly. Here there is already the beginning of an attempt to answer the question, though not necessarily a successful one.

Any question about what God’s purpose is regarding various things is ridiculous. As long as He hasn’t revealed His purpose to us (through His prophets), you can raise endless possibilities, but it isn’t relevant as long as it has no basis in God’s own words. And even then, the thinkers will say that this still isn’t the real reason.

For someone who believes in the Torah, He really did reveal to us at least part of His will through His prophet Moses. From there, there is no problem at all in extracting a speculation as to why He did so. There are more or less reasonable speculations, and of course they are never certain. But to say that a believer in the Torah necessarily has no clue at all seems to me like a real logical failure. Anyone who says that needs to prove that nowhere in the Torah is there even the slightest hint—while at the same time he himself has already assumed that the information did reach him (that there is a Torah, and that it conveys to us an abundance of messages).

With God’s help, 25 Adar 5781

Following Rabbi Michael Abraham’s instruction to ask God why He needs a people that will keep commandments, I decided to use my daily conversation with God to present Him with the question.

To my surprise, I got the answer already while preparing for the meeting, right at the beginning. We open the verses of praise with: “Give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name; make His deeds known among the nations.” The role of the people of Israel is to spread in the world the belief in God’s unity and the basic moral values known as the Seven Noahide Commandments.

For this purpose the people of Israel were meant to be “the firstborn son,” who shows his younger brothers the way. And even before the revelation at Mount Sinai, God made it clear to the people that they were to be “a kingdom of priests” and “a holy nation” that would represent God’s will in the world. As the priests of humanity, the people of Israel are obligated to conduct themselves in ways of holiness beyond what is required of the rest of humanity—both the 613 commandments, which bring God’s people to a constant internalization of God’s presence in His world, and moral conduct beyond the norm required of humanity as a whole.

Thus the Israelites are required to be an exemplary society, “a holy nation” that has a God close to it and righteous statutes and laws, which will inspire all the nations to follow in their path.

Best regards, Amiuz Yaron, may his Rock and Redeemer preserve him.

That’s a good example of a reasonable speculation (for someone who believes in the Torah and feels bound by it).

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… to be “the firstborn son” who teaches…

If it were important to God that people keep commandments, He wouldn’t have prepared Hell for us.