The Shmuz On The Parshah

“And Moshe stretched out his hand over the sea, and Hashem moved the sea with a strong eastern wind all the night, and He turned the sea to damp land and the water split.”

But as for me, when I traveled from Padan, Rachel died on me in the land of Canaan on the road, while there was still some amount of land to go to Efras; and I buried her there on the road in Efras, which is Beis Lechem.

“The Children of Israel did according to the word of Moshe; they requested from the Egyptians silver vessels, gold vessels, and garments.”

“And they related to him all the words of Yosef that he had spoken to them, and he saw the wagons that Yosef had sent to transport him; then the spirit of their father Yaakov was revived.”

– B’reishis 45: 27

And Pharaoh sent for Moshe and Aharon and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Hashem is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.”

– Sh’mos 9:27

The Bach, commenting on the Tur Shulchan Aruch, explains that the decrees of the Y’vanim against the Jewish People occurred because the Jewish People became “lax in their service.”