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This week's Torah reading contains the "song at the sea" sung by the Children of Israel upon their deliverance from the Egyptians, when the Red Sea split to allow them to pass and then drowned their pursuers. Hence this Shabbat is designated as Shabbat Shirah, "Shabbat of song."
Our sages tell us that the birds in the sky joined our ancestors in their singing; for this reason it is customary to put out food for the birds for this Shabbat (to avoid the possibility of transgressing the laws of Shabbat, the food should be put out before Shabbat).
Links:
Parting of the Red Sea
Miriam: Tambourines of Rebellion
G‑d did not lead them through the way of the land of the Philistines (13:17)
The tribe of Ephraim had erred and departed from Egypt 30 years before the destined time, with the result that three hundred thousand of them were slain by the Philistines . . . and their bones lay in heaps on the road. . . . G‑d therefore said: If Israel sees the bones of the sons of Ephraim strewn in the road, they will return to Egypt . . .
Thus the verse says, v'lo nacham Elokim ("G‑d did not lead them," which can also be translated as "G‑d was not comforted"). This is comparable to a king whose sons were carried off as captives, and some of them died in captivity. The king afterwards came and saved those that were left. While he rejoiced over those who survived, he was never comforted for those who had died.
(Midrash Rabbah)
https://w2.chabad.org/media/pdf/10069.pdf
Mazal Tov
to
Timnah Weinstein & Jonty (Jonathan) Sidney
on the announcement of their
ENGAGEMENT
(in Johannesburg)
Mazal tov to their parents
Simona & Simon Weinstein (Melbourne)
Jenny & Steven Sidney (Johannesburg)
Mazal tov to their grandparents
Eda & Zvi Elkus (Melbourne)
Imi Weinstein (Melbourne)
Helen Hart (Johannesburg)
May they be brought to the Chuppah בשעה טובה ומוצלחת
Mazal tov to the whole family
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We are grateful to Rabbi Shmuel Lesches of Young Yeshivah for sharing this with us.
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G‑d said to Moses: "Come in to Pharaoh" (10:1)
Rabbi Shimon [bar Yochai] continued: It is now fitting to reveal mysteries connected with that which is above and that which is below. Why is it written, "Come in to Pharaoh"? Ought it not rather have said, "Go to Pharaoh"? It is to indicate that G‑d brought Moses into a chamber within a chamber, into the abode of the supernal mighty serpent that is the soul of Egypt, from whom many lesser serpents emanate. Moses was afraid to approach him, because his roots are in supernal regions, and he approached only his subsidiary streams. When G‑d saw that Moses feared the serpent, He said, "Come in to Pharaoh."
(Zohar)
https://w2.chabad.org/media/pdf/62696.pdf
BS'D
With gratitude to Hashem we announce the
ENGAGEMENT
of
AVRAHAM DRIZIN שיחי'(NY)
and
CHAYA KATZתחי' (NY)
Mazal Tov to the parents
Chaim and Faigie Drizin (NY)
Yossi and Nechama Dina Katz (NY)
Mazal Tov to the Grandparents
Rabbi Mordechai and Sara Gutnick (Melbourne)
Mrs Chani Drizin (NY)
Rabbi Zev and Risha Katz (NY)
Rabbi Yossel and Malka Rosenfeld (NY)
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G‑d spoke to Moses, and said to him: "I am G‑d. I revealed Myself to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob" (6:2–3)
G‑d said to Moses: I regret the loss of those who have passed away and are no longer found. Many times I revealed Myself to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; they did not question My ways, nor did they say to me, "What is Your name?" You, on the other hand, asked from the start, "What is Your name?" and now you are saying to Me, "You have not saved Your people!"
(Talmud, Sanhedrin 111a)
You questioned My ways, unlike Abraham, to whom I said, "Isaac shall be considered your seed," and then I said to him, "Raise him up to Me as an offering"—and still he did not question Me.
(Rashi)
https://w2.chabad.org/media/pdf/177/MdyY1778315.pdf