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Question on Ekev: in what way are good things hard?
In the beginning of Ekev, Moshe says that Hashem tested Bnei Yisrael in the desert to see if they would remain faithful - "Remember the long way that the LORD your God has made you travel in the wilderness these past forty years, that He might test you by hardships to learn what was in your hearts: whether you would keep His commandments or not." (Devarim 8:2) - and then appears to proceed to list the hardships. The first one is the hunger that preceded the bringing of the manna. Then he adds that "The clothes upon you did not wear out, nor did your feet swell these forty years." - while these sound like good things, in context they seem to be continuing the list of hardships. Is this a correct understanding? If so, in what way are these considered hardships?
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My dad suggested that I had misunderstood the way the verses are supposed to be read. He said that Moshe says that Hashem brought upon the various hardships of traveling through the desert and in order to alleviate somewhat those hardships, Hashem sent the following miracles: manna, clothes that didn't wear out and feet that didn't swell.
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