A person who is looking for a virtue, the virtue that will save him is to feel sorry for Jews and not to feel sorry for Jews/ShutterStock
And he set the sea to destruction and the waters split (Exodus 10:21).
Our holy rabbis tell us in tractate Sota (2, 1): Rabbi Bar Bar Hanna said Rabbi Yochanan and Kashin to pair them like the tearing of the Red Sea.
And regarding man's sustenance, the Gemara says (Pesachim Kich.) Rabbi Shizvi of his name Darbi Elazar ben Azariah Kashin said that a man's sustenance is like the tearing of the Red Sea.
And here it is necessary to understand, in the Holy Torah it is said "and the waters parted" and we mean the 'splitting' of the Red Sea, while the Sages use the 'splitting' of the Red Sea. What is the difference between splitting and splitting?
Another question - if marriage and livelihood are as difficult as the splitting of the Red Sea, what was in the Red Sea That thanks to him we were able to tear it apart, and that thanks to the same thing man will be entitled to sustenance and marriage?
It is possible to clarify and say a great principle, the first time something is cut in two is fission. Tearing, on the other hand, is in something that was whole and was cut, we glued it together and then it is cut again is tearing - when what was already whole, is torn A second time.
According to this, it is possible to explain what our holy sages say, when the Israelites left Egypt and reached the Endless Sea, God tore the sea apart for them, but there were two people, Dathan and Abiram, who did not go with the Israelites who remained in the land of Egypt to help Pharaoh.
Regarding Pharaoh's words, "They are embarrassed in the land, the desert is closed to them," the Jonathan translation says, "And Pharaoh said to Dathan and their knights, the children of Israel, they will stay in Egypt" - Dathan and Aviram stood with Pharaoh and he told them that the people of Israel And they lived in the desert, and when Pharaoh began to chase after the Israelites, they went with him.
But when Pharaoh drowned in the Red Sea, Dathan and Abiram wanted to cross the Red Sea and G-d performed a miracle for them and the sea parted for them once more.
Our holy sages teach us that there were two splittings of the Red Sea - the sea parted twice. The first time the sea parted for the Israelites and the Israelites crossed In the sea on land, after that the water came back on the Egyptians and they drowned in the sea. The second time after the Egyptians drowned in the sea, the sea parted again for Dathan and Abiram and they crossed the sea in a great miracle - alone.
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According to this it is possible to clarify and say that when the Torah talks about the 'splitting' of the Red Sea, this is the first time the sea split in two.
But when the Sages say that Adam's food and Adam's marriage are as difficult as the tearing of the Red Sea, they are talking about the second tearing - the one that took place for Dathan and Aviram. This is already a tearing and not a rupture.
And here is the place to ask, what did Dathan and Aviram deserve for which the sea was torn apart for them?
Our holy sages say Shadatan and Aviram were policemen in the land of Egypt. When the Egyptians were working hard for the Israelites, they would put a Jew in charge of being a policeman for each group of Jews who would have to work. If the Jews did not work according to the strict requirements, the Egyptian policemen would beat the Jewish policemen and they would beat the Jews who would work. Our holy sages say that Dathan and Aviram were among these policemen, but even if they were evil, they still did not want to make the Israelites sad at work, if a Jew did not do the work as the Egyptians asked him to do, they would be beaten, but on the other hand, they did not beat that Jew and did not pressure him So
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due to the fact that Dathan and Abiram were sorry and received blows from the Egyptians and did not oppress the people of Israel, they won a broken end for only the two of them - even though they were wicked, even though they stayed with Pharaoh, and even that in the desert every time there was a crisis, they would cause great sorrow to Moshe our Rabbi and the people of Israel And despite all that, since they received blows from the Egyptians and did not make the people of Israel happy, Shim Sof was torn apart for them privately.
This is the great virtue of a Jew who regrets and does not make Jews sad.
Such a Jew receives such great virtues that the end would be torn for him.
According to this, it is possible to explain the words of the Sage. A man's marriage is as difficult as the tearing of the Red Sea, and a person's livelihood is as difficult as the tearing of the Red Sea - if a person wants to know why the sea was torn apart for Dathan and Aviram the second time, the answer is because they felt sorry for the people of Israel and did not tear the The people of Israel.
So is a person who is looking for a virtue for livelihood and a virtue for marriage, a man who wants to find his marriage soon, a man who sees that his livelihood is difficult. The virtue that will save him is to feel sorry for Jews and not to grieve Jews. If there is something that grieves Jews and a person can take it upon himself and prevent grief from Jews , because thanks to these actions he will soon win a decent marriage and thanks to the sorrow that he regrets and does not regret, he will earn a living in profit and abundance.
David Berger, in collaboration with Shuba Israel
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