The Torah in its account of the Creation of the World teaches us that on the sixth day after creating Adam and Eve God bestows blessing upon them (v. 28).   God endows them with good fortune in perpetuating themselves and with success in the new world which He placed them in. 

Simply read, the blessing  is for mankind and is out of God's desire to foster mankind in successfully realizing its function in the hierarchy of His world. The blessing which God bestows here is directly upon Adam and Eve. .

However, the Sages of the Land of Israel extended the reach and significance of this blessing far beyond Adam and Eve and the time of Creation. Their blessing also has astrological implications.  

The Mishnah (Kethuboth 1:1) proscribes that a virgin should be wed  specifically on Thursday (night, eve of Friday).  What consideration was used to select this specific day?

Bar Kappara (ibid) teaches us that this day is propitious for marriage because God blessed Adam and Even on them. The very day on which they were blessed is also blessed for all time.  Adam and Eve's blessing to procreate and prosper, also extends to a groom and bride who'se marriage on this day should have the propensity to endure and be successful. 

This positive and optimistic outlook does not end with individual  moments of blessings and propitious times. The Sages of the Land of Israel saw the entire world as endowed with blessing.

The Talmud of the Land of Israel (Hag. 2:1) preserves an enigmatic teaching: “I am creating My world  with a beth  (berakha) . . . with a  form of blessing and perhaps then the world will persist”. 

In this passage our Sages may sound pessimistic about the world. Granted, the destructive forces in our world are overwhelming. But God created His world with blessing, with a disposition for success. Blessing is in the world’s very fabric and it is this blessing which counterweighs them.

The Lesson that the Talmud of Eretz Yisrael teaches us is here that the  world was created as a seedbed for success. If we see failure in the world around us it is not because this is its nature, but because we have not succeded in cultivating its innate blessing.