Hashem Did This to Me—No One Else

The Daily Chizuk from our teacher, the holy tzaddik, Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a – "They walked on dry land in the midst of the sea"

Thursday, 1st of Shevat 5785 – "Hashem said to him, 'Curse David'", these are his holy words:

Pharaoh would mock Hashem, claiming that Moshe and Aharon were sorcerers.

"A fool vents all his spirit" (Proverbs 29:11); this refers to Pharaoh, who thought it was just another act of sorcery. But in truth, it was the work of Hashem. It was not sorcery; the staff and the serpent were not sorcery – they were signs that Hashem gave.

Hashem can turn a staff into a serpent and a serpent into a staff; Hashem can turn the sea into dry land and dry land into the sea. Before this, they walked on dry land in the midst of the sea; after this, they were in the midst of the sea on dry land.

When a person is in the midst of the sea, he should know that he is on dry land; when he is on dry land, he should know that he is in the midst of the sea—that he feels secure.

We are meant to receive the Tablets at the Giving of the Torah; Hashem wants to give us the Tablets (the lesson was delivered before Shavuot)—now, before Mashiach comes, Hashem wants to give us the Tablets anew with lights and lightning.

"I am Hashem your G-d" (Exodus 20:2), meaning that a person knows that 'I am Hashem your G-d'—that a person knows that everything is Hashem.

As David says, "Hashem said to him, 'Curse David'" (2 Samuel 16:10)—that a person is ready to say about everything, 'Hashem did this to me.'

When someone insults a person, he holds a grudge for a few days until he calms down. It takes even the greatest tzaddik three days to calm down—but David, in a second, says, "Hashem said to him, 'Curse'," this is Hashem acting; I have no confusion here.

They say to him, 'Who is this dead dog?' ("And Avishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, 'Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over, please, and take off his head'" - 2 Samuel 16:9), simply a dog, this is the head of the reincarnation of a dog, who is this head of this dog?

This was Shimei ben Gera, who was the teacher of King Solomon (Berachot 8a). As soon as they killed Shimei, Solomon immediately went and married the daughter of Pharaoh.