Why should some things be predetermined, whereas most other things are not? And why specifically these? If the concept of “beshert,” or a match made in Heaven, has become so popular as to desensitize us to these questions, we should perhaps focus on the assertion that this is also true about a man and his field. Why did Rav not say this about a man and his job, for example, or a man and his study partner or business partner?

Perhaps we can understand this better if we compare it to a theoretical divine voice saying that a certain man is destined to be united with a certain pair of lungs. After all, we now know that like almost any organ, lungs can readily be transplanted from one body to another. That being the case, lungs could also be seen as an independent unit. You might object and say that a person’s (first!) lungs develop together with the rest of the person in the embryo, removing any need for God to bring them together. But I think that is precisely the point! A man and wife may develop and be born apart, but they are really no different than any part of the person’s actual body. And apparently this holds true for a man and his house and field as well. For more click here.