When was last time you sat down for dinner with a toddler at the table?!
As dinner concludes, you don't just clear the table... but the floor, walls, face, belly and pockets too.
Actually, it's quite boring watching an adult eat - whatever is on their plate typically gets consumed, just the way it was meant to be. Pretty predictable.
Contrast that to a toddler - roughly 5% of their plate contents end up in their mouth. But precisely because of that challenge, we find it most amusing. Parents derive the greatest pleasure in watching them get 5% of the food content into their little mouth.
This gives us insight into the story of the spies sent to scout the promised land in this week's Torah portion Shlach. They returned from their mission with a negative report, seeking to deter the Jews from entering the land. G-d was upset, and as a result, they wandered the desert for forty years.
The Chasidic masters shed light on this episode, explaining that they were hesitant to enter the land - not because they were afraid and questioned G-d's ability to lead the Jews in conquest - but because they were living a perfectly spiritually focused life in the desert. All material needs were being provided for worry free (Manna/Well of Miriam/Clouds of Glory etc.) and they did not want that to change.
But they missed the point. G-d loves watching His little toddlers live in a land, build and economy, and still, in between their jobs, communing, laundry and bills, manage to get 5% of Spiritual nourishment into their lives.
Be a good toddler; and give our father in heaven the greatest Nachas!