This Shabbos comes out on the last day of Passover. This Day was around the time , just after the The Splitting of the Red Sea.
We had arrived at the sea after coming out of Egypt , and as things stood, could not go further.
On the third day after leaving Egypt, Pharaoh expected us to return , as he was originally told when the plagues started that we would go into the desert to make Korbanos and return . This was a Middah Knegged Middah punishment for the Egyptians , as they had originally not told us what their building projects would be when they asked us to volunteer and it turned out to become slavery .
So now that third day had arrived and Pharaoh saw we were not returning . He had sent spies among us to make sure we are persuaded to return and now these spies showed themselves and tried to get us to return , but we refused and these spies were beaten. Some spies managed to escape back to Pharaoh , who was told where we are ( stopped right near an idol of baal ( baal tzefon as mentioned in Torah ) and that we are not returning . Pharaoh assumed that the fake idol was holding us there , For HaShem Had Wanted Pharaoh to be caught in this thought so as to get him to go after us and thus his army be drowned .
Pharaoh and the remaining Egyptians regretted their decision to set us free and so , Pharaoh harnessed 600 of his elite chariots to be pulled by the horses that were not harmed during the hail, when they were taken in under cover . Pharaoh and his army caught up with us when we were near the Red Sea , actually called the Yam Suf - Reed Sea . The people heard the sound of charioteers coming and were panic-stricken . Dathan and Aviram argued with Moshe and Aharon that they should not have left Egypt . HaShem Considered these complaints as a rebellion against Him . Moshe told them to 'stand back and witness the Salvation of HaShem . ' Moshe prayed to HaShem and HaShem Told him to command the Sea to split , but it did not listen to Moshe . The Angel Sar of Egypt Appeared over the Egyptian Army to fight for them and went up to HaShem and begged HaShem to not destroy the Egyptians . The Sea didn't want to open so as not to have the low level Egyptians in it . HaShem Held a Heavenly Tribunal , where the Sar of Egypt Pleaded for Egypt to be let go . The Angel Michael asked the Angel Gavriel to go down to Egypt and bring proof that these Egyptians deserved punishment . Gavriel returned with a brick used in the building that had within it the body of a Jewish child , and the decision went forth to sink the Egyptians in the Yam Suf . The Yam Suf raged all night , till HaShem Personally Came down and Split the Sea , for the Sea said to Moshe it will only obey and open for the Master of the Universe . But the tribe of Yehudah Nachshon ben Amminadav entered before it split , showing his Emunah and the leader of Binyamin entered just after him . The Sea Split into twelve different pathways so that each Tribe could walk through separately , yet through the walls of water , the Tribes could see the tribe next to them for comfort . As Yosef's coffin was brought down to the Yam Suf , the Sea opened at that moment , for as Yosef had kept himself pure from Zulaicha , so did the Sea respect his purity . The Angel Gavriel stood at the Walls of water helping to keep them up . The water walls formed beautiful mosaic patterns that gave off sound and one need only stretch out one's hand to drink water and then the wall would close in that spot again . The Egyptians were basically plunged into darkness for the Pillar of Fire and the Clouds of Glory that led the Children of Israel , went behind our camp and blocked the Egyptians from their persuit till their time had come and they were plunged into darkness, thus getting their seventh day of the Plague of Darkness , for each Plague usually lasted a week , yet for us , HaShem Lit Up the night . Water in other places in the World also split , thus publicizing the Miracle . The Waters of the Yam Suf also formed a roof over us to shield us from the Egyptians arrows which were already being stopped by the Clouds of Glory from HaShem . Then came the time for the Egyptians to go across and they , according to our Rabbonnim , were hit with 250 Plagues within the Yam Suf, each Egyptian suffering according to the measure in which he hurt us .
The Sea spat out the Egyptians on the shore so that we could see this was the end of them .
The Sea churned them , hitting them like iron . They sank into the mud within , yet we walked on dry solid ground , a punishment for them for putting us in the brick pits . Pharaoh was the only one to survive so as to witness HaShem's Truth and Power and he never returned to Egypt , but traveled to Nineveh , where he became the king there and this time , when Yonah came to tell them to repent , he listened .
Our People sang a Shir praising HaShem For His Mighty Acts and so , did the women led by Miriam , also dance and sing . This was the last time , we saw those Egyptians that hurt us .
It is interesting to note , that The Reed Sea ( not Red Sea ) is called Yam Suf . The words ' Yam Suf ,' are spelled exactly the same as ' Yom Sof ,' which means ' The End or final Day .' This was tthe lat day that the Egyptians ever pursued us , for after this miraculous event , we were free and never bothered again from these Mitzrim Egyptians .
This is like the End Of Days , when we will finally be free of all that want to hurt us , and we will live In Peace and Safety . How significant is each word in our beautiful Torah from HaShem . Passover , The Festival of our Freedom , is all about being saved and freed from our oppressors. We even , on the Seder night , put out a glass for Eliyahu Ha Navi , who , at the End of Days , will anoint the Moshiach . Thus our Pesach is very symbolic of not just our Freedom from Egypt , but also our freedom from this present Olam Hazeh , and our entering into Olam Habah The World To Come , after Moshiach . Such is the hidden deep meaning of HaShem's Yam Suf Miracle , celebrated near the end of our Passover Festival Yom Tov . So , we are to look forever forward just as we are to. Look back as we celebrate our Passover as if we too were redeemed , for everything that happens , is a link to what is to come . Each learning experience , is a step up into our future . Freedom from the shackles of our Yetzer Horah , will be a beautiful thing to look forward to , at the End of Days , for then , we will have been forgiven for the Aveirah that took us out of Gan Eiden . This too is Passover , the freeing of our Yetzer Horah and all that pulls us down to lower spiritual levels , Chas Ve Shalom . Each step we take , must always be a step up toward our Creator HaShem .
Just as we rid ourselves of the Chometz on Pesach so must we rid ourselves of arrogance , unholiness and lack of morals and most certainly foreign ways and beliefs. To truly get to the ' Yom Sof , ' The End Day , ' let us all rid ourselves of the Chometz of our egos and lack of holy spirituality and the useless want for the physical and all its traps . Let us ,each day appreciate the Beautiful Gift that HaShem Gives us , to work ourselves up to Him . May every step we take , lead us to our final Yam Suf and to the End of Days with HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu .
I wish HaShem with Love a very Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh and Good Yom Tov with Love , and to all my fellow Jews , a Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh and Good Yom Tov with love .
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