Venue: Young Israel of Oak Park Young Israel of Oak Park

Parsha:

Beshalach 

Collections: R' Shaya Katz Peshischa on the Parsha

Description

The Avnei Nezer asks how Rashi could use the same phrase about the Egyptians unity that he does next week to describe the Jewish people- ‘with one hear, as one person’. He explains that their unity was different than ours: they first had their individual desire- ‘one heart’ and then through that they unified under a common mission- to get the Jews. But we were committed to each other first ‘like one person’, then we collectively aspired for our mission- ‘with one heart’- to accept the Torah. We also explained from Reb Chanoch of Aleksander the sweetness of the ‘water’ came through their intolerance of the bitterness.