In this week's parsha, Behaaloscha, we learn:

• How important it is to crave to do a mitzvah- and to try to find workarounds and solutions to perform mitzvot.


• The importance of asking questions, and not assuming that if there was a workaround it would already have been stated.


• That even when it may seem like the journey God is taking us on has many stops and starts, is meandering, and could have been completed differently, God has a plan. Our lives are like tapestries- the bottom side looks snarled and tangled, but when you turn the piece over, you see a beautiful pattern.


• It's important to judge others favorably, or to speak to them directly rather than gossiping behind their back.


• Our good deeds can always come back to help us- which is what happened with Miriam, who was rewarded for having watched and waited to see what would happen with baby Moshe all those years ago.