There are important principles in our faith, which basically come down to one important point, which is that God's wisdom is above our wisdom and therefore, we don't understand how He acts with us and we don't necessarily understand what He asks us to do (Mitzvot). And actually we can take it a step further- We don't understand nature either. Why am I putting these three things together? Because these are three areas where God reveals Himself in the world. God reveals Himself in nature; He created the world, that's one of the places He reveals himself, and yet there are so many things that are beyond our understanding- the human body, the animal kingdom, the botanical kingdom and so on. Then there are the commandments that He gave us: Tefilin, Sisit etc. And then there is the way God acts with us. All three of these are beyond our understanding, but we can apply one to the other. There's a story where someone once came to the Chazon Ish and said, " I don't understand the way God's acting with me. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't seem fair." So the Chazon Ish sat down with him to learn Gemara, and after learning the Gemara and Tosafot (which is a little difficult to understand), the man did not understand it. And the Chazon Ish said, " If you don't understand this Tosafot, you don't understand this piece of information that God gave over how, are you going understand the way God is acting with you?" Each one of these three areas can teach us that don't understand. We don't understand Mitzvot and Torah, We don't understand creation… exactly how certain things work in our body, And lastly, we don't understand how He acts with us. In this week's perasha, two out of the three show up. The first one is where Moshe Rabbenu says, הַצּוּר֙ תָּמִ֣ים פׇּֽעֳל֔וֹ כִּ֥י כׇל־דְּרָכָ֖יו מִשְׁפָּ֑ט אֵ֤ל אֱמוּנָה֙ וְאֵ֣ין עָ֔וֶל צַדִּ֥יק וְיָשָׁ֖ר הֽוּא God is a rock. Everything He does is perfect. All of his ways are just. He's a loyal God, a reliable God, there is no iniquity. He's righteous. He's straight. And that means everything that God does is perfect. The Midrash Tehilim says, on this pasuk, "They told Moshe," (I don't know who they is), " Who made it that you can't go into Eretz Yisrael?" And he said, "I caused it to happen." And they said, " You caused it? God caused it." But Moshe said, " Heaven forbid. even if you see something that doesn't seem right, for example, if a good man is suffering or the opposite, you always have to know this Pasuk: HaSur Tamim Paalo God is a rock. Everything He does is perfect." Moshe Rabbenu said this, as we quoted above from this week's perasha. And this is similar to another interaction where they tell Adam HaRishon, " Who caused you to die?" and he answers, "I caused myself to die. " And they say, " What do you mean, didn't God cause you to die?" He says, " Heaven forbid," and gives a mashal of a man that's lying on his sickbed. The doctor tells him what to eat and what not to eat, but he doesn't listen to the doctor. Now, when he's deathly ill, someone says, " Did the doctor cause you to become deathly ill ?" And he says, " No, the doctor didn't cause me deathly ill. I didn't listen to the doctor, and that's why I'm deathly ill." That is an important concept. Tamim Pa'alo Everything God does is perfect and we can't question- because of this very point. We have to accept that God is fair and God is just, and we just don't understand it.. It's beyond us to understand. That's when it comes to the way God acts. When it comes to Mitzvot, it's also a pasuk in the perasha, כִּ֠י לֹֽא־דָבָ֨ר רֵ֥ק הוּא֙ " It is not something empty from you ,״ referring to the Mitzvot, " it's your life." The Gemara Yerushalmi in Pe'ah says, " If it's empty, it's because you are empty." Sometimes people say, " That makes no sense," when really it does make sense, but they just don't understand it. The the lacking is not in it , the lacking is in you. The Chafetz Chaim gives a mashal of a man who had a suit that was tailored perfectly to him. A few months later, he goes back to the tailor and says, " This suit is too big. It doesn't fit me ." And the tailor says, " The suit was made perfectly. The problem is, you got sick and lost a lot of weight. That's why the suit is baggy." And the same thing is true for us. If someone says, " Hey, the mitzvah of Tefilin doesn't fit me well, it doesn't make sense to me," the Chafetz Chaim says, " The Tefilin is the right size. Your head just got smaller." You don't understand. The lacking is in you . This is the important principle that we are discussing: Our ability to understand is limited. We cannot understand how Mitzvot work, but if we don't understand, it's not that the mitzvah doesn't make sense, but rather, it's something that we're lacking. If God acts in a certain way and we don't like it, it's because we don't understand it. Again, God's actions are perfect, and His decisions are just..we just don't understand them. The last one, which is not in the Perasha , is how does nature work? How do the wonders of nature work? And just as we'll never understand the wisdom of creation, so too, we don't understand how God acts with us and we don't understand God's Mitzvot. Basically, we have to say, "I have faith. I rely on Hashem. He knows what He's doing." Have a wonderful day and a Shabbat Shalom.