Shiur 25th Nisan 5785 [continuation] to those learning Chumash Rashi

The sea is something very deep.

We were by the Yam Suf (Sea of Reeds)[1]. 1950 [metres deep], two kilometres. We travelled around 100 metres [into the sea] – it’s already two kilometres deep.

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How did he get there? The sharks would have eaten him.

Now, a shark ate someone. Now, the rain didn’t fall, lots of fish died, so the sharks came to eat the dead fish. This was in the Hadera River.

Don’t immerse there, whoever goes to immerse [i.e. using the sea as a mikvah], you can immerse, perhaps, in Yitzhar, but not there. Not in the Hadera River, not in the Alexander River and not in the Tannim (crocodiles) River.

Once upon a time, it was full of crocodiles, now it’s full of sharks.

All the fish died. Now, if they continue to pump water from the Kinneret, the fish will die. Because the fish need a depth [of water], and need fresh [water]. So, the rain didn’t fall, so all the fish died.

They should have cleaned this out, and taken them out. In the meantime, they already announced the day before that it was dangerous.

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One person went for a swim, the sharks swallowed him. They couldn’t find him.

Two sharks swallowed him, poor man. Maybe, they did a tikkun for him. It could be, that he entered Gan Eden. [But] we wanted him in this world!

We are ‘anti’ Gan Eden, we want people to continue to live.

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Now on Simchat Torah, 1,500 people went straight to Gan Eden.

If they would have made teshuva, they would have been Rosh Yeshivas, they could have brought everyone back, made a yeshiva with a thousand students.

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Translated and excerpted from Shivivei Or, 406.

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FOOTNOTE:

[1] The Rav is apparently talking about when the sea split for Am Yisrael, on the seventh day of Pesach.