Parshas Beshalach: Life Here in the Clouds of Glory

Life is good here in the cloud. We've been wandering in the mid-bar for a couple months now and I still can't believe that it was not that long ago that I was just a slave to a power in Egypt, my dad. His name is Irochem. He goes to Kohl-El every morning and he hears Sheer from the great Moshe Rabbeinu. He loves it. Rumor has it that we get so many new mitzvahs that I can't wait to fulfill. When I'm thirsty, it's pretty easy. There's a well down the block. It's magical. It just quenches my thirst immediately. And when I'm hungry, simple Mano rains from the heavens. And every morning my mother steps outside, picks it up, separates it and prepares it for the meal. Pretty easy process. Things are good here in the cloud. And Maimora when. Every time I go to school. She's a really nice lady. Her name is Miriam. She's actually Moshe's sister. She has a nice voice, they say. And she just told me the craziest thing. She said you know every single day that the moon falls from the heavens. It's pretty cool, but it's not always going to be like that. One day, instead of the moon raining from the heavens, it's going to come from the ground. You're just going to have to put a seed in the ground wherever, kind of think it's a good idea, and God does the rest, cracks open and something sprouts out fruit, you can choose vegetables, grain it just pops out of the ground. A total miracle, isn't that crazy? You see, this is a clear depiction, hopefully, of what is the Ramban Sofparshah's bow, that a Jew, in order to have a portion in the Holy Torah, needs to know. Um na nisa maged doi lem ha meh for samim adam moh deba nisa manis darm. From the great, open miracles that we witness, that we still talk about that we remember all the time. We recall that there really is no such thing as just the way it is Things happening. Aim ba hem tev awmen ha gosh alolam. The reason Tylenol works, the reason that caffeine gives a good hit, it's all because a Kosh Barhu wills it to. Bain be rabib, bain be yachad. If you do good, you get reward. Things work out. If you do bad, you are punished. But everything is a miracle. There's no such thing as just happenstance and coincidence. The world is a tricky place because we do believe that it's the acetaminophen that heals headaches, and even though scientists can't figure out where the beating heart gets its electricity from, it seems like a complicated topic. It's really all very simple. It's Hashem running the show and while we are used to the way things happen, it's no different to the girl who came home from school hearing from Mora Miriam about Mun that was falling from the heavens not being that cool, but rather the future things that we haven't seen, about seeds growing from the ground and creating food. That's miraculous. The Jew needs to know that. He has a different outlook on life. It gives him hope, it gives him excitement, it gives him a piece of the pie, because there's no such thing as teva and happenstance and just chance, but rather everything is a miracle from the open to the hidden Kulano, nisim. It is all miraculous and all carried out by Hashem.