מה תצעק אלי why scream to me דבר אל בני ישראל ויסעו, speak to the Jews to move, asks the Ohr Hachaim Hakadash, why did tefila alone not help here? He answers, that sometimes midas hadin, judgement, rules as they were accused of also worshiping a’z, so they had to show a mesiras nefesh, a sacrifice, to have the midas rachamim, ruling of mercy, overtake by getting into the sea which actually done by Nachshon ben Aminodov, besoch hayom bayabosho, first going to the sea and then dry land but by the Jews was bayabosho besoxh hayom, the dry land was in the sea.
The GRA explains that choma originally was with a ‘vov’ meaning a wall but later it is without a ‘vov’
cheimo, meaning anger.
The GRA explains that it refers to the pesel of Michal. When the Jews were in the sea, the pesel was still outside in the dry land whereas when the Jews were on the otherside, the pesel went into the sea. They were never in the sea together.
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