Parshat Beshalach: National Inception - Rabbi Shmuel Reichman

as we begin partial push off the Jewish people have just witnessed the miracles of leaving Egypt that are now heading towards her scene I to receive the Torah in between however lies a cosmic event crea C ops of the splitting of the sea however the commentaries point out that this journey through the ops of appears to be pointless after all the Midrash explains the colonists all exited on the very same side that they entered and if I should have simply wanted to destroy the Egyptians pure plenty of far easier ways to accomplish this so what was the purpose of such a journey but the answer lies in understanding the true nature of you'd see essence trying and the significance of water the morale explains that the fundamental nature of water is that it's formless water has no form of its own it takes on the shape of its container and this is because water represents the initial stage of every creative process before something becomes expressed and takes on form and acquires shape the resides in a formulas and amorphous state and only afterwards does a physical form and this is why during the original creation of the world the Toma tells us and initially there was only water and only afterwards then the dry land emerged from the water and just as the creation of the physical world emerged from formless water so to each of us have our own creation story and therefore emerge from our own waters the amniotic fluids in the world and the morale explains that this is why the Jewish people had to immerse themselves in the waters of the Apso from leaving material this was the creation and birth of the Jewish people just as the creation of the world emerged through water the Jewish people had to be born from water as well the entered the water as individuals but emerged reborn as a nation it was a spiritual metamorphosis an existential transition it was the birth of a people in every day we get to wake up reborn as well and start anew every day we get to choose who we are what we believe in how we're going to live our lives each morning we get to create our identity this year when we read about Korea stamp so really be inspired to undergo a genuine rebirth in our own personal lives to create even more empowering I did living a truly extraordinary lives you [Music] [Applause]