In this meditation, we focus on one line from the Song at the Sea: עזי וזמרת יה ויהי לי לישועה, “The Lord is my strength and my song. The Lord has become my deliverance” (Exodus 15:2), looking at the connection between strength and song, and then finally, deliverance. We consider the strength it takes to cut off and let go of burdens and baggage from our past, like the dead Egyptians on the shore, and how doing that, like the shedding of a snake’s skin or like the pruning of a tree (zimrah is also related to the word for pruning), can actually open us to singing the song of God that our soul was born to sing. Along the way, we ask the question: what voices from the past stop me from singing my divine song?
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