When Moses was simply shepherding the sheep of Jethro, in this week’s parshah Shemos, he turned to see a bush that continued to burn without being consumed. He looked more closely and then heard a voice call his name. “Moses, Moses,” and he replied, “Here I am!” (Exodus 3:4)

He was being called to take on a mission that was completely new to him. He had no idea how to do it, and was simply promised that he would be able to do it and that he would be protected along the way.

How many of us would dare to follow through with this kind of job interview? But thankfully Moses did. He gradually learned to trust the many twists and turns that God put in his way, and eventually led a trusting community through the wilderness of the desert, right up to the Promised Land.

The Torah has given us an amazing role model to follow—to trust the higher wisdom of an inner guidance we can’t see, as long as we make sure that our guidance is true. This is where the teachings in Judaism come to support us on this inner quest. When we know, for sure, that the Judaic sages are teaching us an honest understanding of the higher wisdom of the universe, from having consistently lived in this understanding themselves, we can see from their experience that we, too, can be ready to trust.