Mishpatim: 5783 - "But he who did not lie in wait, and G-d caused it to come into his hand": if he killed unintentionally, why did Hashem "arrange it into his hand"? Upon the conclusion of the 'shiva' days for the three victims murdered in the terror attack,…

00:00 Who kills intentionally. “But one who did not lie in wait, and G-d brought it to his hand,” right? In other words, someone who kills unintentionally is obligated to go into exile. What does “G-d brought it to his hand” mean? It was unintentional, but G-d brought it to his hand. Why? We don’t know. Or take wicked people, for example, right? But in general, G-d brought it to his hand. Hakadosh Boruch Hu caused it. Recently, we… A week ago, two children, brothers aged five and six, were killed in a horrific terror attack. Why? We don’t know. A young married man was killed so brutally before his wife’s eyes. We cannot ask why Hakadosh Boruch Hu did that. G-d brought it to his hand. Why don’t we know? There is a maamar from the Alter Rebbe in which he explained part of the prayer we say: “You know the secrets of the world.” The Alter Rebbe said that Hakadosh Boruch Hu also gave the secrets of Torah to tzaddikim. Tzaddikim know the secrets of Torah, but we don’t know the secrets of the world. Only You know them. Only Hakadosh Boruch Hu knows. And he gave an example. A Jew is traveling with a wagon and horse, and they sink into mud. The horse and wagon are stuck. A Jew as rich as Korach passes by and says, “What can I do with all the money I have? What can I—what’s needed here is someone strong enough to pull the wagon out of the mud. What? All the money I have won’t help.” Somewhere else, a Jew is in a pit. The local landowner put him there because he hadn’t paid the rent on his lease, and he’s crying out for help. A Jew with the strength of Shimshon passes by, hears the cries and says, “What can I do with all my strength? I can’t help here. What’s needed here is someone who can pay the debt.” If this one had gone here and that one had gone there—the rich man to where the Jew was in the pit, and the strong man

02:14 to where the wagon had sunk into the mud—everything would have worked out; everything would have fallen into place. You know the secrets of the world. We don’t understand. That is how Hakadosh Boruch Hu made it; that is how He determined it. We don’t know. I once heard the Rebbe say that we cannot come to Hakadosh Boruch Hu with complaints: Why did You do this, and why did You do that? We don’t understand. “If I knew Him, I would be Him.” But we can come to Hakadosh Boruch Hu with a demand: Since this and that happened, now things must be good—good in a visible and revealed way. Good Shabbos to everyone.