Growing through life's challenges

What does Hashem add by saying "Lech lecha", go for yourself, when the very next pasuk already promises Avraham a great nation? And if leaving his father's home was for his own good, what made it such a hard test? Rashi's reading opens a question about Avraham and Lot, who both loved doing chesed, yet ended up in very different places. It comes down to a quiet check we can run on our own kindness. A short story about a driver, a forest, and an unexpected passenger asks what a Jew carries with him.