Beshalach: Uncertainty in the Desert

Thesis: The Ma’an was Hashem’s way showing the Jews that it is ok to live

with uncertainty.

Question: Why does the Torah stress the fact that the Jews complained about

the Ma’an in the desert?

Answer: The Jews had plenty of food, but they were scared of the

uncertainty of the desert and the lack of food around them.

There is a theory in Physics called the

Heisenberg principle. It states that we cannot know both the speed and location

of an electron – we can know one or the other. With that background,