Beyond Nature

A family of nine on a tightly budgeted trip up north stops at a restaurant only so a little one can use the washroom. The head waiter starts shouting, a young waitress turns red, and the father has a few seconds to decide what to do. What follows catches everyone in the room off guard.Behind it sits an old question on Lech Lecha: if Hashem Himself told Avraham to leave home, why does that count among his ten tests? And why, asks the Beis HaLevi, was Yosef kept two more years in prison for one small request? The answer asks how far your own bitachon is willing to go.