Eikev - The Test of Prosperity

life is full of challenges and tests financial issues medical issues raising our kids just day-to-day stuff but i believe in this week's torah portion we're introduced to a whole new type of challenge something that really speaks to our generation and specifically to summer time when we're on vacation that's what it says in this week's torah portion mushroom tells the jewish people that god took you out of egypt and he took you through the desert and he gave you food from heaven and he gave you water from the rock everything you needed was taken care of why did he do it le man in order to test you what type of test is that we had everything we possibly needed but yet moshe rabbanu tells us that that was a test and in a way that's the test of our regeneration imagine you have everything that you need you have a home and you have nourishment and you have health and you have things going well for you that's when the test begins what do we do with our free time what do we do with the time that we have now that we have everything we live in a culture that provides everything for us are we teaching our children values are we using that time to make the world a better place or are we just trying to kill time because we have nothing to do with it that is the test that moshe rebel tells the jewish people before they enter the land of israel that is the test that speaks to us in our generation shabbat shalom from yerushalayim