One Hundred Words on the Parshah

~ 100 Words on Pesach

“אז ישיר” is written in the future tense since this שירה includes all the שירות that כלל ישראל will sing in the future on upcoming miracles. חז"ל mention that by קריאת ים סוף, even the עוברות (embryos) were saying שירה in the womb. Just as an ,עובר who is not fully developed, said שירה, so too, the future generations of כלל ישראל that were not yet developed, sang שירה at קריאת ים סוף; meaning that their שירה was included in אז ישיר.

Additionally, at קריאת ים סוף, Hashem gave נבואה to the Yidden. Normally, it would take a tremendous amount of preparation to reach the high level to be worthy of נבואה. But Hashem gave it to the Yidden. This necessitated a special creation, comparable to the creation of the world which was done יש מעין. Why? Hashem was catapulting כלל ישראל onto a level they did not reach in order to prepare them for מתן תורה. In the same manner, the שירה was catapulted onto a level to incorporate all future שירות.

May we have the ultimate song of the future with the coming of משיח, which will have נפלאות double of what we had when we leftמצרים .

כתבי הגרי"א הענקין פרק ראשון P. 185

~ 100 Words on Pesach

The text of the הגדה that the Rambam wrote (which the Yemenites still use today) begins with מגיד. Right before הא לכמא עניא, he writes the words “בבהלו יצאנו ממצרים”, we left Egypt in confusion. The תרגום in his translation of “כי בחפזון יצאתם ממצרים” likewise, translates these words to mean we left מצרים in a state of confusion.

R’ Yisroel Neuman, ראש ישיבה of BMG in a שמווס right before Yeshiva closed down, mentioned that בהלה, confusion, is part of the תוכחה, the curses in the תורה which will be fulfilled if Jews do not behave properly. He pointed out that we are currently suffering tremendous בהלה from the coronavirus and all the related situations.

May פסח herald the exiting of our generation’s בהלה.

All learning should be a zechus for a refuah shelaimah for Yosef Ezriel Ben Chaya Michal