We committed to going through Az Yashir with Rashi, to keep the flavor of Pesach in our mouths. We continue with pasuk ז
וּבְרֹ֥ב גְּאוֹנְךָ֖ תַּהֲרֹ֣ס קָמֶ֑יךָ תְּשַׁלַּח֙ חֲרֹ֣נְךָ֔ יֹאכְלֵ֖מוֹ כַּקַּֽשׁ׃
In Your great arrogance (or pride), You crush those that have come up against You. You send out Your anger, You eat them ( or destroy them) like fire destroys straw.
Rashi explains that those that come up against You are those that come up against Klal Yisrael.
The Jewish people realized this important point at Keriat Yam Suf. They l had a tremendous revelation that those who are against the Jewish people are really against God. They let out their anger towards God on God's representatives on earth-the Jewish people. We should be flattered by this. Every antisemitic act is really, in essence, a compliment. It’s their way of saying they’re too lazy to build a tower (like the Tower of Babel in the Dor Hapalaga) and fight against God. They don't want to build towers, so they look for God's representative here on earth, which is the Jewish people. This pasuk is teaching is that all anti-Semitism is really anti-God. We should wear that as a badge of pride.
Many years ago, an incident occurred where a committee member in a synagogue slapped the son of the rabbi on the face, because the child was making a little trouble om Simchat Torah. The boy came crying to his father that this committee member slapped him. The father said, “Don't feel bad. He really wants to slap me (the rabbi), but he can't, so he slapped you instead.”
That is what's going on here. We keep reading about antisemitism in the news; one of the reasons for all anti-Semitism is that they’re really anti-God. The Nazis wanted to get rid of the Jews because they wanted to get rid of God. We are God's representatives on earth. We are His children. And that's why when it talks about Keriat Yam Suf, it says, “Ra’u Banim Et Gevurato/The children (meaning the Jewish people) saw God's strength.”
So part of the revelation of Keriat Yam Suf was that we saw that we were God's children. We also realized that why we have enemies- because they're really the enemies of God.
The next pasuk, ח says,
וּבְר֤וּחַ אַפֶּ֙יךָ֙ נֶ֣עֶרְמוּ מַ֔יִם
With the wind of Your nostrils the waters became smart (Onkelus explains Ne’ermu as cunning).
The waters became smart. They, on their own, did what they had to do. Rashi says, Ne’ermu means piled. So it can also mean, The waters piled up.
נִצְּב֥וּ כְמוֹ־נֵ֖ד נֹזְלִ֑ים קָֽפְא֥וּ תְהֹמֹ֖ת בְּלֶב־יָֽם׃
They stood like a wall.
The waters piled up like a wall.
Waters that were flowing became like a wall. The depths congealed and they became like rocks. And the Egyptians were thrown against the hard waters and crushed against them, like someone being thrown against a rock.
That's our story for today.
Have a wonderful day.