How to Split Your Own Sea - a Short Passover Message by Rabbi Mintz

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Chaim Mintz’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

...music... A Gut Moed everybody! I hope that everything is going very favorably,... ...your Yom Tov is going very happy, getting Nachas, and that you're not working too hard. Of course now that it's Yom Tov itself, I guess all the work is over,... ...and everyone could sit back and enjoy. Here we're coming up to the seventh day of Pesach. We're celebrating the splitting of the Red Sea. The Jews had the great miracle - they finally got rid of their enemies, they went through the Red Sea on dry land, and their enemies, the Egyptians were drowned by the water which came swooping down upon them. It was such a great experience! The Jewish people went up to a very high level... ...of "Kedusha" - of holiness, spirituality, getting so close to Hashem. And there's a joy of singing the "Shira" (song of praise) to Hashem, - the great song of "Az Yashir". The whole nation of Israel, the men, the women, the children all sang to Hashem. What does the Torah say right afterwards - right after the splitting of the Red Sea - of this great miracle - of this great elevation of the Jewish people? It says, "they went in the desert and they didn't have any water to drink" and there's no water and people started getting nervous and complaining, "how are we supposed to live... ...without water?" Why did Hashem do this to them? After such a great miracle of the splitting of the Red Sea, God keeps them away from water! And from here we see a great idea involved here which has to do with all of us...

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1. 0:00...music... A Gut Moed everybody! I hope that everything is going very favorably,... ...your Yom Tov…
2. 0:32they finally got rid of their enemies, they went through the Red Sea on dry land,…
3. 1:03What does the Torah say right afterwards - right after the splitting of the Red Sea…
4. 1:34...in our lifetime very often. We have to realize that Hashem gives us challenges for us…
5. 2:06"You're the one who gives everybody their needs, what to eat, what to drink "Please give…
6. 2:39what the whole thing was all about. God gives us challenges from the love of the…
7. 3:13We have to realize that Hashem is doing this... [We ask:] "Why are you doing it,…
8. 3:45Splitting of the Red Sea", and let us take this lesson with us for the whole…

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