As Heard from Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L

Shabbat Shira

“And the waters were for them a wall on their right and on their left.” (14:22)

“A wall” means that the waters protected them from the arrows of the enemy. The sons of Israel had feared the waters no less than they had feared the enemy, but now they saw that Hashem had caused the waters to become their protector. This is an important part of Hashem’s plan, whereby He demonstrates that he alone controls men’s fate, by causing the salvation to come from what seemed to be the peril itself.

The daughter of the oppressor Paro was the one that rescued Moshe who defeated the oppressor. The feared vice-regent of Egypt who cast terror upon the sons of Jacob turned out to be none other than Yosef who was the savior of his family afterward. Egypt, the land of Israel’s degradation and servitude, became the place where the nation increased at a rate never afterward equalled. Joseph was put into great peril, in the jail “where the king’s prisoners are bound” (Bereshit 39:20), in order to interpret the dreams of the king’s prisoners and thereby he became the vice-regent.

The Sea that had appeared as an obstacle and a threat to Israel at Yam Suf, became the savior that engulfed the enemy. The Sea which had threatened Israel with a worse fate that Paro’s wrath, had rescued them from their enemy; and now it washed up on the shore a hugh wealth of booty. Hashem had thereby instilled in us the great awareness and serenity which is Bitachon in Hashem. By demonstrating that Hashem is in control and that He can turn our foe, the Sea, into our friend who destroys our enemy, the Egyptians.

Quoted from “A Nation is Born” by Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L

Shabbat Shalom

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