Splitting Sea: Outside Miracle vs Inner Reality

Have you ever stood by a beach side and just looked at the beautiful blue roaring waters that were in front of you, waves appearing? And what do you see? The answer is you see water. You don't really see much more than that. But in essence, we all know, especially these days with all our technology, that underneath that hidden water, there is a whole civilization. There is a whole new world. A world of corals, a world of color, a world of fish and sharks and all different types of specimens that many people have not even seen, that we haven't even seen and experienced. All hidden beneath the surface of a level of a level that looks completely clandestine. It can't be seen, but it looks so tranquil, but at the same time, it's a living life source that's swimming, literally swimming underneath the whole entire ocean. That is the beauty of the ocean and what lies behind it. The ocean comes to teach us that sometimes you see something that looks so simple, but there's a lot of depth that lies behind it. There's a lot more that when meets the eye. Not only what you see is what what there is to believe. Sometimes, there's more to it than that. The word mayim reflects shamayim. Mayim is the word is the word for water, of course, and shamayim is the sky. We all know the color of water is in essence white, but the reason why the sea looks blue is a reflection of the sky. And the idea behind it is the mayim and shamayim reflect one another. When we refer to the ma'aseh merkavah, we refer to Hashem Baruch Hu, so the whole entire There's two aspects to everything that has to do with Hashem Baruch Hu. There's the actions of Hashem, the actions of what God does, and that is what we see in nature around us, all of the creation that was created on the seven days of Bereishit, and everything that we see physically that is surrounding us, but then there's a lot more depth that lies behind it. There's a whole mice and a cover, there's a world of malachim, there's a world of sphere, there's a world of partzufim, there's a world that has to do with clipot and shadim, a whole world that is invisible to us, hiding behind the surface level of the creation that's in front of us. The water looks like an empty ocean, but it's a living civilization, and also the skies or the creation as we know it, the more we see, the more we see Hashem's creation, his master plan, we see his physical actions, but we know that there's much more deeper recesses that exist there. And lastly, of course, man is a microcosm of the whole entire creation. We are made of 70% water and 30% physical dry dry yabasha as they say, dry stuff. And so too, the world is made of 30% land mass and 70% uh liquid. That's how it is because we are a microcosm of the whole entire creation. And if we look at us, it's the same thing. You look at a person and how do you know him? By his physical actions. What he says, what he does, what he walks in his actions and his decisions that he makes that you see externally. But there's a whole world that lies behind the inner recesses of that person. Sitting in his mind, he has something that we call machshavot. He has a thought process that never ends. It is consistent. It never stops. Our actions sometimes are dormant. We go to sleep, we sometimes relax, or maybe more than sometimes, and we don't do things. Sometimes we are active, sometimes not. Our mind is 24/7 at work, always thinking, always doing, always rethinking and doing again and again, whether you think about it or not, it's happening. Can't rest even when you're sleeping, it's busy dreaming about whatever it's dreaming about. Anyways, just like that's true, so too in the world in front of us, we see a lot of action, sometimes active, sometimes not, but the thought process behind it is always active. Hakadosh Baruch Hu is always there behind it, always moving, never resting, completely restless, always going ahead and moving again and again and again. And so too when you look in the ocean. Yes, it looks bland. It looks like you just see a beautiful beautiful coastline, you see a lot of water, but we all know the ocean underneath is busy 24/7. Those fish never sleep, they're always on the move, there's always action and big fish eating small fish, etc., etc., that's going on in the world that's behind it. So, in summary, there is an external world which we see, which sometimes is active and sometimes not, but in all these three facets, the ocean, Hakadosh Baruch Hu, and us, there is an internal deep recesses of the world that exists on a constant basis, which never stops and it's always moving. That is the beauty of the creation of the world, and that is the beauty of a Yid, of a Jew who knows how to see a little bit deeper. And that's what happened by Kriat Yam Suf. What does it mean by Kriat Yam Suf when the sea split and we were able to see even even a shifcha, even a lowly person, Kevi Yochu, was able to see something that even the biggest navi was not able to see. Because they saw into the ocean. They were able to see a glimpse of the light of Hakadosh Baruch Hu, a glimpse of into the oceans. That we saw that there's so much more than what meets the eye. When they walked through the ocean, they looked right and left, and as the Midrashim say, they saw the the fish swimming on the side. It was like a glass doors. I think about it. I thought about it a few times when I went I I don't go so often, but when I went to SeaWorld in San Diego, I know there's one in Florida, but I have no idea where it exists. And when I was there, you go through a certain exhibit where you walk through glass all around you from top to bottom, and you're going through a Cabrillo Ocean exhibit, and you're able to see sharks and all these ray fish and beautiful fish swimming around you, and I think, "Wow, Krias Yam Suf." That's what Krias Yam Suf was all about. An incredible, exhilarating type of phenomenon where I was able to see prophetic vision through the fact that we were able to see the depth that lies behind not only the ocean, but be able to see Zachaliv and Veyu. That's why we see Zachaliv and Veyu in the song, because we're coming to represent what does it mean Lavayu? We beautify our mitzvahs internally. The beautification of our mitzvahs is not necessarily something you see. If you have beautiful writing in your tfillin, nobody sees it, but the beauty is in the fact that you care about Hashem within your heart, that you have a relationship from from inside. You would think the beauty of the safer Torah should be on the mantle, on the coat that's outside. No, no, it's on the writing that's hiding inside of the safer Torah. Many of the beauty of what we have is much more important for what lies inside, and not necessarily what is seen to the naked eye. And this is the idea what we represent on this idea on the seventh day of Pesach, when we talk about Shvi'i Shel Pesach, when we talk about the beauty of appreciating Hakadosh Baruch Hu we work to its inner depths. And especially right now in our time time period on Shvi'i Shel Pesach, we have Trump's ultimatum. He's going ahead and saying that he's going to go ahead and blow them to smithereens. Amen. I think Mamesh of Krias Yam Suf, Yona Ti Be Chag Ve Sela, when we say in Shir Ha Shirim the Yona Ti Be Chag Ve Sela, it is referred to what we were by Krias Yam Suf. Behind us was Paro, to the side was animals, in front of us was the ocean, and it says the mashal of a bird that goes running away from the falcon, and it goes deep into the recesses of some crevice in a wall, and suddenly sees coming out from the other side. He sees a snake and realizes that he has nowhere else to turn except for a Kodesh Baruch Hu. It's a time that is a tremendous auspicious occasion during this time of Krias Yam Suf. It's a time where there's nothing to do. Matzah, challah, not even the tfilos. What does it say? Nachshon jumped into the ocean. A little bit of mesirus nefesh. To make a change, to do something that we can do. If we want this Shvi'i shel Pesach to be the end all of Geulah, B'nisa nigalu, B'nisa matidi ligael, and today is the day Shvi'i shel Pesach is the time when it's going to happen. So, in order for that to happen, we all have to go ahead and make a change. Take ourselves out a little bit of a comfort zone. Nachshon ben Aminadav jumped into the ocean. Yes, it was a scary situation from right, left, and back, and center. It was scary, but when he did it, he jumped into the ocean. That's what he did in order for make the to make the success happen. And B'ezras Hashem, Kodesh Baruch Hu should get rid of all our enemies from all the kivunim, from all the sides, and B'ezras Hashem, we should be able to cross through the ocean and be able to come out the other side, and being able to see the amkus and the great depth that lies behind all of Hashem's actions that we've seen these past 2 years.