Nature one big optical Illusion

A worried phone call after an ultrasound, and a drive to Rav Kanievsky for a bracha. That story closes a look at Moshe striking the rock in Chukas. Why is the punishment, missing Eretz Yisrael, so severe for hitting instead of speaking, when water from a rock is a Kiddush Hashem either way? And why was Moshe told to strike the rock back in Beshalach? Rav Shimshon Pinkus explains the difference, and why the world we call "nature" sits at the heart of it.