The Parting Of The Red Sea

Tanchuma, Beshalach 4

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"And the LORD went before them" (Exodus 13:21). By the measure with which a person measures, by it they measure to him. Abraham escorted the ministering angels, as it is said: "And Abraham went with them to send them on their way" (Genesis 18:16). Therefore the Holy One, blessed be He, escorted His children in the wilderness for forty years. Abraham said: "Let now a little water be fetched" (Genesis 18:4).

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AngelsMosesNoahHoly Land

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