Shabbos Shira
Shabbos Shira. The Shabbos of song. What song? The song of praise, faith
and thanks that the Jews sang to Hashem after the miraculous splitting of the Red Sea. The Jews had already witnessed the ten plagues in Egypt. Why hadn’t they sung there? It wasn’t until the splitting of the sea that Hashem’s revealed intervention reached its crescendo. Paro and the Egyptians pursued the Jews with armed chariots. They caught up with the Jews at the Red Sea. There was no place to go. The enemy was closing in from behind the Jews and the sea blocked the way before them. Their fear and awe of Hashem increased immeasurably as He rescued them from that impossible situation. What burst forth from the Jewish people in that moment was the Song at the Sea. This song is written in the future tense, literally “we will sing”. The Medrash interprets this as meaning that the same people who sang then, will sing again at the resurrection of the dead in Messianic times.