You Guided Them in Your Strength by the Merit of the Torah

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 251:5

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"You guided them in Your strength" (Exodus 15:13). By the merit of the Torah that they are destined to receive, and "strength" means nothing other than Torah, as it is said, "The LORD will give strength to His people" (Psalms 29:11); and it says, "And the strength of a king who loves justice" (Psalms 99:4).

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