Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat Beshalach (link to original page) Parshat Beshalach "And G-d did not lead them through the Way of the Philistines": The Goal and the Paths. Ilan Michel At last, it happened. After repeated requests, threatened with and then subjected to plagues, with divine intervention, the Egyptian tyrant finally gives in and accedes to the repeated demand of Moses, the leader of Israel: "Let my people go." A new era in the history of Israel commences, the transition from slavery to freedom. Therefore many commentators tried to understand the essence of the first...