MERIT ON CREDIT
In this week’s Parsha, Shemos, when HaShem tells Moshe to tell the Jewish people that He will redeem them, Moshe expresses concern that the people will not believe him. Why was it necessary for the people to believe Moshe that there would be a redemption? There was still a year of the most dramatic miracles in the form of the plagues that was going to transpire before they left Egypt, would that not be enough to convince the people?
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In this week’s Parsha, Vayishlach, our father Yaakov references HaShem’s promise that ‘his children shall be like to sand of the sea which is not counted because it is so numerous’. It is noteworthy that the promise was not that ‘they will as numerous as the sand of the sea’, but that ‘they shall be like the sand of the sea’. It would seem that the parallel to the sand is not limited to the number of grains but to the very essence of the sand. If this is correct we need to appreciate the significance of the sand of the sea.
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