ספר דברים

Deuteronomy 28,8. “the Lord will ordain blessings for ‎you for your barns.” Seeing that it is G’d’s custom to ‎dispense largesse and blessings for His people Israel, the method ‎G’d employs to do this varies according to circumstances. It may ‎be ‎גלוי‎, manifest, i.e. it becomes immediately clear to all the ‎onlookers that an act of great benefit for the Jewish people has ‎been performed by G’d. Often this takes the form of a miracle ‎being performed. On the other hand, when G’d uses covert means ‎to dispense His largesse for His people, it may often not appear to ‎be such at the outset, although in the course of time it will prove ‎to have been planned as such by G’d already much earlier than ‎the effect being felt.‎When Moses speaks about G’d ordaining (nature) to bestow ‎its blessings on the Jewish people, he refers to blessings due to ‎the Jewish people themselves having roused themselves ‎spiritually, as a result of which their barns filled with produce at ‎harvest time. Moses refers to something, whose benefit to the ‎recipient does not become apparent (at the time when he ‎ploughs and sows) but only after most of a year has passed at ‎harvest time. When G’d asked Avraham to offer him his beloved ‎son, Avraham was not immediately aware of the great benefits ‎that would result from this. [At the time he may have ‎considered the “test” by G’d as having been masterminded by the ‎attribute of Justice rather than the attribute of Mercy. ‎Ed.] It was only after the successful conclusion of that ‎‎“test,” that he recognised in it the hand of Hashem rather ‎than the hand of elokim. Compare Genesis 22,14. ‎