Sometimes living without knowing the plan is part of Hashem’s plan
Rashi explains that Hashem left Avram’s destination vague to increase the difficulty of the challenge and thus increase its reward.
I used to have a good sense of direction. One of the best presents my kids gave me, years ago, was a huge, thick atlas of Israel. I loved poring over those pages, tracing roads and rivers the length and breadth of Eretz Yisrael.
Enter modern days’ Waze. My car was equipped with this new technology, and before I knew it, gone was my instinctive sense of direction. Why should the gray cells work if the blue line on the screen showed me exactly where to go?
One day I had to drive to Beit El — which, for the uninitiated, is a beautiful yishuv north of Jerusalem. It’s also about four miles from Ramallah. My son had an appointment there, so we blithely hopped into the car, programming Waze for our destination.
We drove past Yerushalayim, paying little attention to direction, as I could navigate these roads in my sleep. But as I headed farther into unfamiliar territory, I glanced at Waze to see where I was meant to go next. And saw that Waze was recalculating. And recalculating. And continuing to recalculate.
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