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R' Shlomo on P' Beshalach: I Am and I Am Not What I Am |
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Written by Rav Shlomo Carlebach zt"l
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 Sweetest friends, the torah tells us that, after the Jews crossed through the Red Sea, “the Sea returned to its strength.” The Gemara says, (Rashi brings it on the verse) do not read it as “strength” but as “condition,”. The Red Sea returned to
its original condition. You see what it is, when G-d created the Red Sea he made a condition with it that, on the seventh night of Pesach, when the Jews will be by the shores of the Red Sea, the Sea should split open and allow them to pass through.
You see what it is, open your hearts like mad.
G-d makes conditions, not only with the Sea. G-d makes a condition with every person in the world. G-d tells each person, “There will be one moment in your life when you can save somebody else’s life, there will be a moment when you can do the greatest thing, which I created you for, but – you have to be ready to be something else. To go out of your way. Water, to become dry land, to become anything in the world. The deepest secret of life is that, I always have to be what I am, but there are moments I have to be not what I am also.
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