Saving Klal Yisroel | Rabbi Yaakov Mizrahi

Imagine 600,000 men, 2 to 3 million people, at least, waiting by Yam Suf, behind them the Mitzri’im, to the right, to the left, there's nowhere to go. Moshe Rabenu tells the Yam Suf: Split! And the Yam Suf is not splitting. Moshe Rabenu, he wants to go bring the Torah for Bnei Yisrael. Aharon Hacohen Hagadol, Bnei Yisrael, we're ready to go serve Boreh Olam. Yam Suf, split for Bnei Yisrael! And the Yam Suf is not splitting for nobody. All of a sudden, What? Who? Who just came? Who is here? The Yam Suf, say our Rabbis, split in honor of one person. Yosef HaTzaddik. Yosef's bones were brought and all of a sudden, in honor of one Tzaddik, the Yam Suf says: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Yosef HaTzaddik himself is here? הים ראה, the Yam Suf saw, so to speak, the bones of Yosef, וינס, and fled. Why for Yosef HaTzaddik? Yosef HaTzaddik had the hardest test in the history of mankind. Says the Netivot Shalom: Harder than the test of Akedat Yitzchak. He was in a house with Eshet Potifar. The most טמא place on earth, where she tried to seduce Yosef three times a day. He was there for one full year. And says the Kli Yakar: Yosef has no clue what she looks like. How do you live in a house with a lady, she's trying to seduce him three times a day? And Yosef HaTzaddik, a 17-year-old boy, stood to the test, the greatest test in the history of mankind. In honor of Yosef running away from his test, The Yam Suf says: I'm going to run away from myself. I'll split in honor of Yosef HaTzaddik. One boy, at 17 years old, changed the course of history for Am Yisrael. If Yosef did not pass his test, says the אגרא דכלה, the Yam Suf would never have split. What would be? We have no idea. But בזכות Yosef, We were all saved. Yosef HaTzaddik, when he tells Bnei Yisrael the final words, he says: Take my bones with you. He needs us to take his bones? Yosef knew that in order to leave, we are going to have to stick to his Derech, to his path. He was telling Bnei Yisrael: You want to get out of here? והעליתם את עצמותי take my bones, But עַצְמוֹתַי is עַצְמוּתִי, take my essence, take what I stood for, take it with you and you'll be able to leave the Galut. Whenever Bnei Yisrael were in Galut, בזכות the Kedusha, we are able to elevate and to leave the exile. It all depends on Bnei Yisrael. The faster Bnei Yisrael are able to up their game and to stick to the Derech of Yosef HaTzaddik, to this beautiful path of Kedusha and Tahara, then the faster we're going to be able to leave our Galut, our exile. One 17-year-old boy could change it for all Bnei Yisrael.