The Daily Chizuk from The Rav, the holy gaon and tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a – “They walked on dry land בתוך the sea”

Thursday, 1 Shevat 5785 – “Hashem said to him: Curse David”—these are his holy words:

Pharaoh used to mock Hashem, claiming that Moshe and Aharon were merely doing sorcery.

“A fool lets out all his spirit” (Mishlei 29:11)—this refers to Pharaoh, who thought it was just another trick. But in truth it was the work of Hashem. It was not sorcery. The staff and the snake were not magic—they were signs that Hashem gave.

Hashem can turn a staff into a snake and a snake into a staff. Hashem can turn the sea into dry land and dry land into the sea. Before that, they walked on dry land בתוך the sea; afterward, they were בתוך the sea on dry land.

A person can be inside the sea and know that he is on dry land; and when he is on dry land, he should know that he is inside the sea—so that he feels secure.

We are meant, at the giving of the Torah, to receive the Luchos. Hashem wants to give us the Luchos (this shiur was delivered before Shavuos)—and now, before Moshiach comes, Hashem wants to give us the Luchos again, anew, with lights and thunder.

“I am Hashem your G-d” (Shemos 20:2)—meaning, a person knows “I am Hashem your G-d”; a person knows that everything is Hashem.

As David says, “Hashem said to him: Curse David” (Shmuel II 16:10)—a person should be ready to say about everything: Hashem did this to me.

When someone insults a person, he gets upset for a few days until he calms down. Even the greatest tzaddik needs three days to settle down. But David, in a second, says: “Hashem said to him: Curse”—this is Hashem doing it; I have no confusion here at all.

They say to him, “Who is this dog’s head?” (“And Avishai son of Tzeruyah said to the king: Why should this dead dog curse my master the king? Let me cross over, please, and remove his head”—Shmuel II 16:9). Just a dog—this is the head of a reincarnation of a dog. Who is this dog’s head?

This was Shimi ben Geira. He was the teacher of King Shlomo (Berachos 8a). As soon as they killed Shimi, Shlomo immediately went and married Pharaoh’s daughter.