He has been lucky sufficient to discover a modest room with a few of unsere menshen, and he will get his meals at a strictly kosher restaurant on the seashore.
As a matter of reality, the proprietor of the restaurant is aware of Moses from former years, and is conscious of his current materials situation. So he expenses him by the week—one thing which isn’t frequent on this heat seasonal metropolis the place enterprise has a chilly facet.
Moses is undecided the place to spend Pesach, which is however two days away.
The proprietor of the restaurant, to Moses’ shock, asks him whether or not he has been invited for the seder by one of many members of the congregation wherein he’s energetic.
As a matter of reality, Lurya has had a couple of invites from pleasant “natives.” Nonetheless, he has informed all of them that he’ll determine in a couple of days.
Plainly many of the invites carry with them an perspective of pity. That is one thing that the delicate nature of Moses Lurya can’t bear.
The breezy wind subsides and Moses Lurya opens his drained eyes and gazes on the sea.
He instantly reminds himself of the biblical story of the Youngsters of Israel going forth out of Egypt below the management of Moses.
Pink Sea pursued by the Egyptians
He photos to himself the newly-freed slaves coming to the shores of the Pink Sea pursued by the Egyptians. He can nearly hear Moses commanding the Jews to proceed into the ocean. And the Pink Sea elements, and between partitions of water they cross. When the Egyptians comply with, the waters cowl them over and they’re drowned.
He can hear the voices of Israel singing songs of reward to the Lord of Hosts who has rescued them from their enemies and the voice of God thundering from Heaven:
“Moses, Moses, how will you allow your followers to sing praises to Me when the works of My hand—
It grows colder and he rises from the bench and walks in direction of the guts of the town the place the partitions shelter him from the chilly wind.
As he walks, two issues disturb him and maintain operating by way of his thoughts. Whose invitation ought to he settle for for the seder night time, and the way tall had been the partitions of the Pink Sea when the Youngsters of Israel handed between them?
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