The lesson that keeps coming up is that the path to the Promised Land is fraught with obstacles, and we each must overcome our doubts and confusions and continuously clarify our goals. This happened with Avraham, having to go to Egypt first, and now we see it happening to the entire Jewish nation. Instead of being led on a direct path, God took them around. As Mac Miller sings on Hurt Feelings, “I’ve been going through it, you just go around it.” It sometimes feels like the only way to power through something is to push directly through it, but sometimes a circular path instead of a direct one is more healing and conducive to holiness. It allows time for healing and clarity, and that is exactly how we as a nation pushed through the waters of the Red Sea and became free.

This week we read the song that Moshe and the 3 million Jews burst into in unison after being saved by the splitting of the Red Sea. Spiritual exile corresponds to Egypt, and we find ourselves spiritually stuck and often feeling trapped in our own lives, sometimes in indecision, other times by a series of obstacles that seem insurmountable. It’s each of our willingness to draw close to God that represents our own exodus from impurity and indecision, to purity and clarity, from faithlessness to a life more faithfully balanced. Often, when we do feel trapped and feel that we have no viable options left, we are only left with crying out, speaking out, praying out to God, and in those times we will see the waters open up and the beginning of a redemption will reveal itself.

Carlebach says that in order to sing one has to be free. The slaves from Africa used to sing to tell you that no matter how much you tried to enslave them, they were still free. Singing comes from the world of freedom. When you sing, you are telling evil, “You don’t have dominion over me.”

The Zohar says whoever sings Az Yashir every day with kavanah will merit singing it together with Mashiach in the time of our ultimate redemption. It’s not enough to ask for the redemption, as we already know it is coming; we must ask for it speedily at this very moment, and with that bask in the revealed Light of Infinite forever.

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Much love & Shabbat Shalom!
– Erez // @erezsafar

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