Bs”d
Parshas Chukas (5772)
by Mordechai Dolinsky
In our sedra we find Klal Yisroel complaining consistently in a negative manner. They were not a group of kvetches, rather standing up to a very difficult nisayon.
When speaking to the stone it was if the stone really heard but in reality they had to believe it was all from Hashem.
Have a wonderful Shabbos.