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The painter immediately knew what he had to do. He went to the horse and cut the painting into two parts. He placed them side by side, with some distance between them. Suddenly, people stopped. They stopped and looked at the wonder – a horse split in two!
Rabbi Shlomo Kluger related this parable (I heard a slightly different version from Rav Yonatan Billet in the name of Rav Shalom Shwadron z’l) in order to explain the significance of the Splitting of the Sea for us. What is more wondrous – a complete sea, flowing from side to side, or a split and broken sea? Obviously a complete sea, flowing normally. The way nature’s systems work is much more impressive! However, we were accustomed to seeing a whole sea, and we no longer acknowledge the wonder of creation. Only when the sea split, did everyone look at G-d’s wonders – "They had faith in G-d and in Moses, His servant."
We need to observe the whole creation, to view with wonder everything around us, and to understand that all of this is emanates from G-d. "There is no artist like G-d" (Brachot 10a) – from everything in existence we can reveal the wonders of G-d’s creation – if we would only wake up and observe. The split sea will teach us to be amazed by the entire sea and by nature which is constantly being revealed to us.
In many poems, my poet grandfather Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon z’l, emphasized this idea. I will quote a few lines from one of them (Collection of Poems, P. 86):
I knew, that the solution to everything – is G-d’s Light!
G-d’s Light – He made all like an artist:
The morning sun shone with it,
And the night moon hid its magic,
The afternoon, too, is glory
And my day today doesn’t compare – to yesterday!
My every moment – G-d,
And all my ways – G-d!
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(based on ruling 83037.1 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
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