Bnei Yisroel experienced the Exodus from Mitzrayim [Egypt] and then the BS"D Splitting of the Yam Suf [Reed Sea], about which it is said that the most simple handmaiden at the Sea had prophetic visions greater that the great prophet Yechezkel. The first chapter of the Book of Yechezkel delineates To:
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