there is the WOW, it split to allow Bnei Yisrael to pass through on dry land and then unsplit to drown the Egyptians.
Every Miracle is Proof of G-d's Creation
No one can turn a stick into a snake except the One who created the stick and the snake. Only He who created water can make it turn to blood. Real blood. Not food coloring. And so it goes throughout the Makot, each of which involved miracles that went against nature. The only One who can reverse nature, is He who created nature. Hail is frozen water and fire is fire. Only G-d can put fire into vhail because He created hail and fire. He who made the Sea can command it to split. He who made rocks and water, can cause water to come from a rock at His command. And so on, and so on, and so on... But there is more. We should not look at the miracles we are told about in the Torah and the rest of Tanach as - On the one hand, there is the norm, water, for example. And on the other hand, there is the WOW miracle of water turning to blood. On the one hand, there is the norm, the Sea, for example. And on the other hand,
Nothing wrong - everything right, with our WOW and appreciation of HKB"H for the miracles. But if that's all, then we are missing something very important. Every norm, every element in nature, is also a reason to say WOW and to thank G-d at all times. Water, H2O, is a miracle too. It is not a one-shot miracle. It is an everyday, all the time miracle. People tend to take it for granted - except in extreme circumstances of its absence. We should never take water (or any other element of nature) for granted. We should never stop thanking G-d for the every day miracles. If you read the MODIM bracha of the Amida, you'll see that we do thank him, three times a day. And every time we make a bracha. We say AZ YASHIR in Shacharit every morning. That's a constant reminder of something that happened more than 3300 years ago. That's good, but we must also know and appreciate the miracle of the sea that preceded the Splitting of the Sea and continues from then until today and beyond. Evaporation from the seas of the world is the source of most rainfall, and ocean temperatures determine climate and wind patterns that affect life on land. MA RABU MAASECHA HASHEM...
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