I imagine some of you readers are drivers, and I want to ask those of you who own a car: How significant are the moments when you get into the car, start the engine and prepare to drive?
I think this is a very significant part of the drive: Sometimes the door doesn’t open, and sometimes it opens and doesn’t close. Sometimes you discover the car is almost out of gas, and so on. You need a certain type of focused energy at this point in the drive.
Two months ago I started driving, and I somehow forgot to close the door. What happened? I hit the car that was parked next to me and broke its headlight. I know the owner of the car, and I knew it was my responsibility to pay for the damage. Later that day I called him and told him the story – “I broke your headlight.”
“Ahh – it was you?!” he answered. “You should know that I’m doing a test for my car now, and they’re not letting me pass because the headlight is broken.”
This was serious damage. The car was not passing its test because of me. Me? Yes. I had forgotten to close the door, but my forgetfulness had been directed from on High.
I felt that this was truly a nisayon of emunah, and
