Chevere, this week’s Parsha is Beha’alotcha (in Israel). Everything starts out well in the parsha. We light The Menorah, we consecrate the Levites, we have some offerings, we get some signs for travel, the trumpets for executing those signs and the breaking up of the camp. Then we actually try to execute it.

As I’m sitting here, I’ve been fighting with an AI all morning. The AIs tell you they’ve fixed the problem, everything is “hunky dory” now and then you try to actually test what they built. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Often, you end up down a rabbit hole of problems.

The people in the desert start complaining. They don’t like the Manna, Moshe gets upset, the people want meat, they get the quail and overstuff themselves, and eventually Miriam is quarantined due to her tzarat.

It very much reminds me of: “No plan survives first contact with the enemy.” In the tech world, we verify, we test, we debug and we iterate. In the “spiritual” realm, we have teshuva (repentance). We do our best and fall down and work to do be better.

May we all work toward getting better.

Shabbat Shalom