Shalom my friends this is Simcha Hochbaum of Hebron standing outside the Maarat HaMachpela getting ready for the seventh day of Passover where we commemorate the great, great miracle of the splitting of the sea.
You know, leaving Egypt is not so simple. Our bodies left Egypt but there was still a little part of us that was still in fear of Pharaoh and we were still afraid of the Egyptians.
There was a part of us that was still paralyzed by what we went through and the trauma we went through of the 210 years of being slaves in Egypt.
And it took that moment, as Shlomo Carlebach would explain, of coming to the Red Sea. And at that moment we realize, it was panic attack. There were certain Jews that said, let’s go back to Egypt. others said, let’s commit national suicide and jump into the ocean. Others said let’s fight. Others said, let us pray and scream and yell to the One, the only One.
And we didn’t know where the solution would come from. And at the last second, God says, put your trust in Me. It’s not even a time for praying now. You have to have complete, complete faith.
It was Nachshon the son of Aminadav who jumped into the sea. And in that merit showing his complete faith in God, he was able to bring the great miracle of the splitting of the sea.
We have to get that strength of this miracle. It should replay itself, it should come back this year. So much fear from Hezbollah in the north, from Iran, from Yemen and missiles being shot in every direction. Sirens. People running to bomb shelters.
We have to remember at the last moment when we’re about to give up, it looks like there’s no hope. Remember the mesirut nefesh of Nachshon. Remember the faith of the Jewish nation.
God willing, God will split all the oceans for us and every Jew both on a personal level and a national level, will cross of his own kriat Yam Suf and be able to sing that great song of redemption the song of the Third Temple.
Hag sameach
