Rabbi Eliezer HaModai preserved one of the most extraordinary statements God ever made about the people of Israel. When Moses cried out at the Red Sea, God responded: "Why do you cry out to Me?" But the reason was not impatience — it was something far more profound.
God declared: I do not need to be commanded regarding the children of Israel. The verse from (Isaiah 45:11) drives the point home: "For My children and the work of My hands would you command Me?" The question is rhetorical and almost indignant. Israel is God's own handiwork, His personal creation. No one needs to remind a craftsman to care for the masterpiece of his own hands.
Then Rabbi Eliezer makes an even more staggering claim: Israel's salvation was not a response to the crisis at the Red Sea. It had been "readied" — prepared, set in place — from the six days of creation itself. Before the sea existed, before Egypt existed, before Pharaoh drew his first breath, God had already arranged for Israel's deliverance. The rescue was built into the architecture of the universe.
The proof text from (Jeremiah 31:36) seals the argument: "Just as these laws of nature will not depart from before Me, says the Lord, so the children of Israel will not cease from being a nation before Me for all time." Israel's existence is as permanent as the laws of physics. The sun will rise, the tides will turn, the seasons will cycle — and Israel will endure. These are not separate promises. They are the same promise, woven into the fabric of creation from the very first day.