Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Commentary for Berakhot 12:35

מאי (קהלת יב, יג) כי זה כל האדם א"ר אלעזר אמר הקב"ה כל העולם כלו לא נברא אלא בשביל זה

What is [the meaning of], “for this/zeh is the whole human”?... R’ Elazar said: The Holy One said: The whole entire world was not created except for the sake of this one / bish’vil zeh.

Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot

The parallel passage in Shab. 30 b reads Eliezer.
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