הניסים שנעשו בקריעת ים סוף על פי מדרשי חז"ל - הגאון הינוקא במוצאי שביעי של פסח תשפ"ו 2026

2:50 No, he'll simply make it small, but it will be... [unclear] It will be... [unclear] So that's another miracle. The waters were split into twelve parts. Another miracle.

3:16 The walls and everything - they had mosaics and beautiful pictures. Another miracle. Whoever wanted to drink water, what would he do? Drink? Take water and drink? How? Streams of sweet water. The children had sweets there, chocolates, honey, oil - they had everything.

3:42 They picked from them, and whatever they wanted they took out of there. When someone finished drinking, what happened? The opening of the water sealed up. Another miracle. Another miracle. The walls of ice - everyone could see; each tribe saw the other. Another miracle. They also had windows through which they could talk - each tribe spoke with the other.

4:09 This one walked here and spoke from here. That is according to Midrash Vayosha. Why was it divided specifically for the twelve tribes, and not everyone walking in one line? Do you know what a traffic jam that would be? Maybe they'd still be in that jam to this day. Come, Chaim. After all, it was like a bow.

4:41 It was like this, like a bow. They walked and came out at the same point - it was like a circle. Notice that here too it comes out like a bow. That wasn't there - do you see? It goes in this shape. They apparently walked all together, mixed among one another, they didn't... here they joined into one. The Egyptians entered - the dry ground they stepped on turned into boiling mud for them, the opposite.

5:14 And the moment the walls... the Egyptians entered, all the walls of ice, the great stones, fell on their heads and killed the Egyptians. Meaning, there was here a combination of elements that don't go with one another. It's boiling underneath, and on the other hand the walls of ice are falling on them. So let's count. The pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire that accompanied them - that's one.

5:43 When Pharaoh decided to chase after the Children of Israel, that's another miracle, the second miracle. When the pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire did this and this for them at the Yam Suf - three. Count. Each of you, count ten. Each one by himself: ten, ten, ten. You count three; after that you, count; after that, you count. The pillar of cloud that caught the arrows - the fourth miracle.

6:08 The splitting of the Yam Suf itself - the fifth. The waters were divided into twelve parts - six. All the waters in the world split - did you see the chiddush I brought you today, how beautiful? The proof? Beautiful, right? Shall we bring it to you once more? - Yes, yes, yes. The Rav's chiddush. Yes. After all, Rashi says that all the waters in the world split.

6:41 We read it a lot. So, like this: "And Moshe stretched out his hand over the sea" - it's written "over the sea." "And Hashem drove the sea with a strong east wind all the night," "and He made the sea into dry land." It's written "sea," "sea," "sea."

7:07 And then after that, what should have been written? "And the sea split." What is written? "And the waters split." From here they know that it was all the waters in the world. You see how beautiful? That's why Rashi says that all the waters in the world split, and from here you see the proof from the verse. After all, until now it's written: "And Moshe stretched out his hand over the sea," "and He drove the sea," "and He made the sea into dry land" - "and the sea split."

7:35 Three times "sea," "sea," "sea" - and the last "sea": "and the waters split." All the waters in the world. So that's the seventh miracle. The splitting of all the waters in the world - that's the seventh miracle. The eighth miracle: the thunder and the mighty sounds that were heard in the entire world. That's the eighth. This tunnel - that's the ninth. The ninth.

8:00 Notice the tunnel that was left here so that they could pass through - that's the ninth miracle of the place. Here, the ground that dried up for the Jewish people - that's miracle number ten. The mosaic - do you see the mosaic I made here in the picture? Do you see it? Do you see it? Do you see it?

8:25 Here, if you look closely, you can see the carpets of grass, and they walked on mosaic. That's miracle 11. The walls here are transparent - do you see that they passed through here? There's some of it in the second picture I made. But you see it, right? The transparency of the frozen walls of ice. The food and the drink - as Rabbi Nehorai says: any woman who wanted, any small child who wanted to eat or drink, had plants here; he would gather fruit, eat, drink - whatever he wanted he had here. And it's from Shemos Rabbah.

9:02 Rabbi Nehorai says: everyone would pick from the trees here, food, chocolate, water - whatever they wanted was here for them. Now, the sweet water that came out of salt water - it's salt water, after all; it's a sea. Sweet water came out for them - that's miracle 14. After that, the water closing up - what number is that? 15. It closed.

9:28 Now, picture that there were women who were pregnant. You know, those noises and that thunder, the sounds and the lightning that were there, the fear and the panic - a woman, what happens to her? She miscarries. And here they did not miscarry - not one woman miscarried. The floor - how should it have been? Like this, right? Depths. "The depths froze in the heart of the sea" - what number miracle is that? 17. All the Jewish people now pass through in such numbers, they pass through it all quickly, with no traffic jam, no...

10:01 How long does that take? It could take them days. Days. What did the Holy One, blessed be He, do? He got it all done swiftly. Another miracle. Miracle eighteen. The height - eighteen. The height of the walls, as you see here in the depiction. You should know, this picture is accurate. We gave it to Elazar to make it with the machine.

10:28 I gave it all the Midrashim, everything that needed to be done according to the description, and look, this is the picture that came out. Even the surging waves of the sea, when they came to catch the Egyptians who fled - those surging waves too are depicted as they were. So you really see this whole description here. I think the last time there was a big tsunami was in Indonesia, right? In Indonesia, the biggest one - the waves were 30 meters high.

11:01 There were depths of water there that hurled thousands, hundreds of tons of rocks. Twenty years ago, in 2002, something like that. When, Ilan? - In Indonesia. In Indonesia. In Indonesia. Tsunami waves 30 meters high. They lifted rocks, and for kilometers they swept the shore.

11:26 So here the waves were not 30 meters. It was up to the firmament. It's impossible to even estimate it. There's no knowing. Twelve mil. Do the math. Go figure it out - but it's already all the way up. You can't see it. It can't be made out by eye. So here are the surging waves of water that came to catch the Egyptians. That's the height - that's miracle 19. Do you see the vegetation here? Miracle 20 is the vegetation. Do you see the vegetation I made here?

11:57 I tried to fit in, as much as possible, all fifty miracles inside this picture, so that it would contain 50 miracles. So far, everything I've said can be seen. The vegetation is here. Only, you don't see, say, the water closing up after the drinking; with the drinking you don't see it, but in the second picture you do. I made several, to see how many miracles could be fit in. Do you see the grass here? That's another miracle, because how can grass be grown in a place of sea?

12:25 It's not ground that's meant for planting. How did it grow there? Ah, that's 20. The Egyptians see such a thing and go into the sea - it's illogical, it's not logical, right? That Egypt would give chase after seeing such a scene - it's not logical. Yet they go in anyway - that's miracle 21. After that, the Egyptians go in and it turns boiling for them - boiling earth, mud. That's 22. The pillar of fire burned the hooves of their horses - 23. The wheels that fell off their chariots - the falling of the wheels, all those wheels.

13:11 They would say: "The sound of Your thunder was in the wheel" - "The sound of Your thunder was in the wheel": the great thunder blew apart, for Pharaoh and his army, all the wheels - the chariots blew apart on them there. So that - the wheels are the miracle. Of course, here you don't see it, but later on it can be made down below, so that it brings in everything. So that's also a miracle.

13:53 So this is really, as you see, 24. The horses and the chariots that pulled them into the water on their own - 25. Because seemingly, at times, the Egyptians could have gotten scared and turned the horses back. The Egyptians had the nerve to go in, and the horses pulled them too. Another miracle.

14:20 The mud hardened on them, as it broke their bones. They went into the mud, the mud hardened on them, like concrete, they couldn't move - to trap them. Another miracle, 26. There came down on them from the sky hail, coals of fire and stones from the sky. It came down on them - that's 27. The Jewish people had fragrances of spices, and they had a harsh smell of sulfur - the Egyptians - of fire, a very harsh smell of sulfur, of smoke that they could not breathe.

14:56 Now, miracle 28... 29 is the great miracle that the sea covered the Egyptians. Another miracle: these He brings across, and those He covers. 29. How can a sea melt? After all, those walls froze there. Suddenly it becomes, it turns into water? How did it melt so fast? Glaciers - look how many years it takes them to thaw; the level drops by a few centimeters from glaciers that are thawing. Such a quantity - shouldn't it have stayed like that to this day?

15:29 30. 29. 30: the Egyptians drowned according to their level of wickedness. This one was more wicked, that one less wicked; this one abused in this way, that one abused in that way. "They were drowned in the Yam Suf." The waves of the sea, the surges of water, chased after the Jewish people everywhere. Where do you see them in the picture? Notice the surging waves here.

15:55 These are the surges of water that chased after the Egyptians who fled. That's what those surging waves were for. Someone looking at the depiction says: what did I make up here at the top? So here is the explanation: these are the surges, so that they would catch the Egyptians who fled. So these are the surges of water that came to catch them and bring them back into the sea. That's the 31st. The sea went back to how it had been, normal, as if nothing had happened - that's miracle 32.

16:27 The water and the wind - that water and wind could pull the Egyptians into the sea at all - that's another miracle, 33. The Egyptians were tossed about like food inside a... "And He shook." He gave them a shaking in there. A shaking is what He gave them. That's thirty-four - a washing machine inside the sea.

16:53 Miracle thirty-five: the horses and the riders were stuck to one another; they could not separate. When the man wanted to get away from the horse, to flee, he couldn't. He was stuck - "horse and its rider." That's why it's written: "Horse and its rider He hurled into the sea." Now, the thirty-sixth was the joining also of the upper waters with the lower waters.

17:19 There was also a combination there of all kinds of waters in the world, which the Holy One, blessed be He, brought - He brought them water from above too, water from the heavens, water from below, salt water - all the waters mixed with one another for the Exodus from Egypt, all of them. The Holy One, blessed be He, did this. That's the thirty-sixth miracle. The height and the depth to which the Holy One, blessed be He, cast the Egyptians - that's the thirty-seventh miracle. He dropped them into depths and into places that are beyond... it's impossible to grasp at all what was there.

17:48 Their chariots, in Egypt - in the sea, they found chariots there, and wheels. It's really interesting how there came to the Yam Suf chariots with wheels. They checked it - exactly from those years. The thirty-eighth - the thirty-eighth is the miracle that the Egyptians were covered by the sea and died by the sea. The Holy One, blessed be He, killed them and covered them, and afterward cast them back out.

18:19 The Egyptians suffered all kinds of suffering, and each one suffered in all kinds of ways according to his own measure - every detail with Hashgachah: for this one He arranged such-and-such a creature, for that one He arranged boiling water, for another He arranged something lighter. Each one had individual Hashgachah - not the same for everyone; each one had it down to the details. That's another miracle; it makes the miracle greater. "They sank like lead in the mighty waters." But what is more individual - that all of them get burning by fire or choking in water, that's a general death.

18:49 How, within that death, still more was arranged for them - that's something that is impossible. After that, the sea spewing out all of Egypt before the eyes of the Children of Israel - that was the fortieth miracle, that it cast them out, that it spews them out. After it had already taken them, it casts them back out. That's another miracle, a miracle in its own right. Now, there were many of the Egyptians whom the Holy One, blessed be He, left alive, who survived, and only on the seashore did they die.

19:20 After all, it's written: "And Israel saw Egypt dead" - when was that? On the seashore. That's another miracle - that they managed to survive the blows until they got to die on the seashore at all. That was forty-one. Now, miracle forty-two: that the Holy One, blessed be He... that Pharaoh took mercenaries from all sorts of countries and told them: go, get them, strike them down.

19:48 So the Holy One, blessed be He, saved all the mercenaries who came from all sorts of countries and places in the world. He was precise: those mercenaries who came for the battle, for the war - "We will save them." And then, when they left, they went to tell the whole world what they had seen. That's why Rashi - what does he say? "And he heard" - "What report did he hear that he came?" "The splitting of the Yam Suf and the war with Amalek" - on "And Yisro heard," as Rashi explained. How, really, do we say that he heard? What, did he have a radio? Rather, it was the rescue of those mercenaries whom Pharaoh took and paid, from all over the world: "Come fight alongside me."

20:18 When they got out and went back - the Jewish people went in from here, then they drowned, then they came out on the other side - they simply were there, in that very scene. They were in the water, the water cast them out, they were in the midst of a storm - for they certainly suffered, but the Holy One, blessed be He, saved them, and then they saw that whole scene and went to tell of it all over the world. That's why Rashi says, on "And Yisro heard": "What report did he hear that he came?" There was a report here.

20:42 Notice, Rashi says: "What report did he hear that he came?" "The splitting of the Yam Suf and the war with Amalek." So - a report, and the whole world heard. Yes? Pharaoh - all the drowning and all the suffering in the sea, that he survived it - that's miracle 43. 44: among the Jewish people too there were surely those who were not worthy, and who also deserved it, Heaven forbid - yet the Holy One, blessed be He, did not punish them.

21:12 He had mercy on them. Meaning, if a person had a sin on his hands, he would have deserved to be punished. Right? Even the idol of Michah passed through the sea. So the Holy One, blessed be He, had mercy on the Jewish people - that's miracle forty-four. All the treasures of Egypt and the spoils that went into the sea - the sea cast them out. That's another miracle. Think about it - that's another miracle. That's forty-five. Today a person throws - when you want to get rid of something, you go, you do the biur ma'asros, you redeem it onto a coin, and throw it into the sea.

21:43 Can a person rescue that coin? Go find it now. Now you say: a miracle - all the coins that were thrown get thrown onto the shore; a person would have wealth, he'd build the Beis HaMikdash, the Holy Temple. So how can that be? Think: the Dead Sea would cast out all the treasures that were thrown in - whoever wanted to get rid of something would throw a coin into the Dead Sea. So - how many coins there already are in the Dead Sea, how many things were disposed of there, how much. Everything - it casts out everything, and there is wealth.

22:09 So the Jewish people became rich. How did they become rich? The sea cast out all the treasures of the Egyptians. All the gold, all the silver - it cast it out. A miracle? That's miracle 46 - the great spoils of the sea, that's miracle 46. 47: after all this, when they had died and everything, the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the Egyptians. Only after they saw and identified them did it swallow them, so that they would have burial. Here the Holy One, blessed be He, does not want... He has pity on His creatures, on the Divine image.

22:42 47. 48 is that the Tribes and the holy Patriarchs stood here to see this whole scene. The holy Patriarchs and the Tribes came to see the scene. "And Israel saw Egypt" - the scene. "And Israel saw" - that is Yaakov Avinu. He saw Egypt at the seashore - this miracle that took place. And 49 is the great prophecy - the Jewish people reached the highest level of prophecy there is, at that moment, when a maidservant saw at the sea what Yechezkel did not see.

23:17 That is the highest level, what they saw in that vision. Just to see the... just to imagine it at all - it's stirring. And the last miracle is the song of the infants, that the unborn in their mothers' wombs sang and gave praise and thanks to the Holy One, blessed be He. And this too is the secret of "My strength and song" - those who were in the mother's womb.

23:43 "Hashem is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation" - those little children, as in the account that is brought... the story that they were murdered by the Egyptians. What? Mercy. That's the miracle, that's miracle 44. That's miracle 44: that the Holy One, blessed be He, paid no heed to the accusation.

24:17 He did not say, "These are idol worshippers and those are idol worshippers." The Holy One, blessed be He, had mercy on the Jewish people, and also the Erev Rav, what they did, and the idol of Michah - that is the compassion of the Holy One, blessed be He. May we all merit, with Hashem's help, to shine the light of Hashem in the world. - Amen. - May we merit good tidings. - Amen. - At the splitting of the Yam Suf. - Amen. - As you see, this is what I tried to illustrate for you and explain to you according to the words of the Midrashim - all of it: Midrash Vayosha, the Mechilta, Yalkut Shimoni, the Me'am Lo'ez - it was all a summary of these things, so that we can count them every year.

24:51 So it's worth your while - bli neder, you'll be able to go back, to listen, to understand. And this is the depiction, following the description - what I managed, according to all the Midrashim, to try to illustrate it, with the help of Rav Elazar. Thank you very much to David and Avichai. Reb David and Avichai and Reb Elazar, who, following this guidance, were precise in everything I told them. They truly made this picture according to the Midrash.

25:18 Does everyone see the picture? We fulfill a kind of remembrance with some 40 miracles at least. Not yet 50 - a few things are still missing here. Try, maybe, to see whether a picture can be made that will include the 50 miracles - if it's possible, it's possible; if not, not. Rav, there were more miracles. Rav, there was the light. Right, but that's in every... I'm talking about beyond the 50 of the Haggadah. - Right, but you can detail it for each one and you can extend it - you can make it 250 as well.

25:48 Good. So may we all have good tidings. I enjoyed being with you on the seventh day of Pesach. Rav, thank you for all the festivals, for the Shabbos that everyone worked on.