0248 - Questions Regarding Shira of Miriam by Krias Yam Suf

00:00 In the Kutah Sichas Chelek Yud Aleph, Parshas Beshalach, page fifty-eight, there the Rebbe says, "Benigeihem," where it says, "Vatikach Miriam satak beyoda," that Miriam, after Kriyas Yam Suf, after Moshe Rabbeinu and the men sang the Shira, she took the drums, and she went and started singing, and the women went along with her. And the Rebbe says, "Why did she take the drums? To express more the simcha that she had." And then the Rebbe writes there that other meforshim give another reason why she took the drum. Because since kol be'isha erva, to hear a woman singing is erva, because we're afraid who knows what this will lead to if you hear a woman singing. So therefore, since they were going to sing, she took the drums in order to drown out the kol of the isha. And the Rebbe said that Rashi doesn't bring that reason because that reason doesn't apply. Why not? So the Rebbe said, because since Rashi says that by Kriyas Yam Suf, "Ra asa shivcha layam ma sheli ro'u neviim," that even a shivcha, even a simple maid, saw more of the Aibishter than even the greatest neviim. So at that moment, there is no chashash, there's nothing suspected, therefore there is no problem with kol be'isha erva, that they should have to drown out their voice, because if they hear, the men will hear their voices singing, there'll be a problem, who knows what it could bring to. So we asked the Rebbe then that l'chorah, we find the Gemara in

01:27 Sukkah daf nun beis, where the Gemara speaks about a hesped that's going to take place in the future, le'osit l'oveid, when Mashiach ben Yosef will be killed. And the pasuk says, "that men and women will be separate." So the Gemara says, so le'osit l'oveid, even though they'll be involved in a hesped, and when you're involved in a hesped, there's less chance for kalos resha'ah, things, immoral things should happen. And also it's a time when ein yetzer hara shled b'hem, the yetzer hara doesn't have any control. And Rashi says, because at that time it'll be already when there'll be no yetzer hara, because the pasuk says, "Hashem says, 'I will take away the heart of stone.'" So people will not have a yetzer hara at that time. And Rashi also said, the Gemara says that Hashem will shatters yetzer hara, and this will be all after that. Nevertheless, the Torah says that you have to have men and women separate because who knows what could be. Certainly at other times you have to do that. But from this Gemara we see that even at a time when there is no yetzer hara, nevertheless, we're afraid who knows what's gonna happen. So how do we say here that because by Kriyas Yam Suf, they saw ro'ah shivcha layam, that's why there was no chashash that who knows what will happen, something immoral might happen, and therefore you can't say that the reason they had the drums is to drown out the voice of their singing.

02:48 And that's the shailah that we asked the Rebbe. And we wrote, maybe the, the reason is that by Kriyas Yam Suf was more than it will be le'osit l'oveid. Not because it was more, but because le'osit l'oveid is going to be a permanent situation, there'll be no yetzer hara. By Kriyas Yam Suf, it is a temporary thing, a sudden thing. So therefore, then you're more involved. When something is constant, you're not so involved in it. But when they see something new, it says in Medrash, when something is new, you're completely involved in it. Everyone runs after it. So when they saw a l'chud, a Kriyas Yam Suf, that's more chance that nothing will happen, and that's why then there is no chashash of kol be'isha erva. But we wrote to the Rebbe, but there's a Sefer HaKoret also, since it's a permanent situation that there is no yetzer hara, so then for sure we're not, we shouldn't be afraid. While when there's only a temporary thing, it's not really the same. We wrote to the Rebbe, "So what is the Sefer here?" The Rebbe crossed it all out, and all the Rebbe did, he wrote the words, that even though in the Gemara it says that le'osit l'oveid, that when there'll be a hesped and the yetzer hara is not shled, nevertheless you have to have men and women l'vad. It's no kasha. And he wrote, "Because Kriyas Yam was even more than then. Because they said, "Ze keili." And Rashi says, "But

04:04 the poshe was showing on the Aibishter." So the Rebbe's saying that the gilyat elokut that was there by Kriyas Yam Suf was more than the gilyat elokut that'll be le'osit l'oveid at the time when this pasuk talks about, which is a little chidush, that even though it'll be ein yetzer hara shled and they have killed the yetzer hara, nevertheless, it's not the same madregah as Kriyas Yam Suf. So we have to look up in other places also where else it says that Kriyas Yam Suf was a higher madregah than them. But that's what the Rebbe wrote, and all the other sefarim that we wrote back and forth, the Rebbe crossed out, and this is the words that he wrote, and that's how it's printed in Likutey Sichos, page fifty-eight, in the Shaul HaGilyon to HaOrah twenty.