Shabbos Pesach Yam Suf : - This Shabbos is the Shabbos of Pesach Yam Suf . This Shabbos comes out on the day of Passover that we as the Children of Israel went through the Yam Suf At 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 . Pharaoh himself , at the beginning , had himself gone out to the place of the brick pits , with spade in hand , showing what a great honor this working project would be . We were called upon to volunteer , and after the first day , the Egyptian workers that night were told not to return , but we Jews were forced to carry on working . Thus we were deceived into slavery . So , Pharaoh too , was not told more than he knew and by the third day , the spies who he had sent along with us , started to argue with us that we must return . On refusal , we fought them and some escaped to return back to tell Pharaoh that we were not returning . The spies told Pharaoh , that we had stopped right near an idol of baal ( baal tzefon as mentioned in Torah . This idol was originally put up long before at the advisement of the wicked Bilaam , thinking it would help prevent us Jews from leaving . HaShem Had Specifically Had us stop in this place , so as to lull Pharaoh into a false sense of security and so , 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 Drown his army . HaShem Had Also stationed wild animals on either side of us , so that the spies would report back that we appear to be trapped and he was made to think that , seeing as the Sea is in front of us , is appears that we cannot proceed forward either . 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 offered the soldiers great wealth as persuasion , to get them to go along . 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 pursuit 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 , but the third Plague of Darkness had only lasted six days and so , Pharaoh and the charioteers were given their seventh day of The Plague of Darkness , 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 Rabbonim , 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 , in areas that Pharaoh knew , could not be built on . Pharaoh knew that those places where we were put to slave , the ground would sink , and would thus , by Pharaoh's idea , be a never ending building project . The only one to survive so as to witness HaShem's Truth and Power , was Pharaoh himself , 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 the last day that those Egyptians ever pursued us , for after this miraculous event , we were free and never bothered again from those 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 True 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 . We are to all , as Jews return to our Holy Torah , keep All HaShem's Commands and as a Single Jewish Nation , Keep HaShem's Holy Shabbos , exactly as HaShem Instructs us to . 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 . So many Miracles Has HaShem Performed For us through time . So much Patience And Mercy Has HaShem Displayed with us through time . HaShem Could Have Destroyed us long ago , yet HaShem Waits for us to all wake up and follow Him , As He Asks us to . We all as a People , Past Present and Future , Gave HaShem our assurance , that we would remain faithful to Him and not follow other ways , or live life as secular individuals like so many do . We Jews have a Special Task to fulfill . We are not to follow others and their ways . HaShem Calls Upon us Jews , to be the ones , who bring the nations to the Light Of HaShem's Oneness . That is our Holy Task . For a Jew to leave the faith , or follow other ways is diametrically opposed to our mission as Jews . It is not for others to lead us to their ways . It is for us to lead others to HaShem's Oneness and Laws . That is a true servant of HaShem . It is certainly important tobe a good and moral person , and that is the task of every individual , but we Jews Have an extra task to perform as Jews , Commanded By HaShem Himself , and that is to be " A Light unto the nations . That is the true meaning of being a Jew , a Yid , being like the ' Yad ' - ' Hand Of HaShem , To Bring all the World , to HaShem's Oneness . Let our holiness shine through and let us all turn over ourselves into the Jews HaShem Asks us to be , and let us be the ones , as one nation all together , who make this World into the Home For HaShem Just As HaShem Wants , Making Heaven Come Down To Earth and making Earth , a Part Of Heaven . 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 Sweetest And Deepest 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 . Shabbat Shalom to all of HaShem's Creation .