This is L’Illuy Nishmas my grandmother (Yehudis Dasha Bas Zev) whose Yarzheit is today, the 9th of Shvat.
(Mod, if you want to have this as the Tuesday d’var torah and you’ll give Wednesday that is fine, also if you want me to give another so we have one for Wed, that is fine too).
(nossond, hope this is not your d’var torah for next week)
R’ Shimon Schwab inquires about the placement of a particular passuk in this weeks Parsha. In between the Shira of Az Yashir and the Shira of Miriam and the women, the Torah tells us: ?? ?? ??? ???? ????? ???????, ???
(Rashi says that it was because Paroh and his people were chasing, therefore Miriam and the other women took musical instruments)
Nevertheless, why the interruption?
The Gemarra in Sotah says that it was in the zechus of the righteous women that Klal Yisroel escaped mizraim. R’ Schwab says that we can even say that durin the miracle at the Yam that the Women had a higher level of Emunah and Bitachon then the men.
The men only said their Shira after ???? ????? ??-?????, ?? ??-??? ???. Only after the men saw that the Mitzrim were dead did they say shira (they were afraid that the same way they went in, so too the mitzrim, and the same way they’d come out, so too the mitzrim). And only ??, only once that fear was calmed, then ????-??? ???? ????? ??-????? ????, were they able to say their shira.
The women, however, said shira once ?? ?? ??? ???? ????? ???????, ???. Since they did not have the same fear as the men, and they were able to recognize the fact that a ?? was occurring and would continue to occur to provide them with salvation. Thus they were able to say their shira before the men did.
This is the lesson of the interruption of the one passuk.