אז ישיר משה ובני ישראל
Then Moshe and Bnei Yisrael sang
A little boy came to his parents with a request: He wanted them to buy him a present, a doll set like they have in gan [kindergarten]. Since he was a good boy, his parents accepted his request and bought him a doll set exactly like in gan. When the boy received the dolls, he complained that they were not like the ones he had in gan, since the dolls in gan knew how to speak and tell lots of stories and can also hear laughter, but these dolls did not know how to move. His parents explained to him that the dolls in the gan also do not know how to move, but the doll is different because it is worn on the hand like a glove, and the hand inside the doll is moving it and the person behind the doll is making the sounds, but the doll itself is not able to move and cannot make a sound.
The Torah relates (15:1), אז ישיר משה ובני ישראל את השירה הזאת' – ‘Then Moshe and Bnei Yisrael sang this song’, and Chazal explain that in fact, it was Ruach HaKodesh – The Holy Spirit – that said the Shira since it is not likely that all Bnei Yisrael in a moment’s notice would be able to sing those words. Rather, Ruach HaKodesh spoke from their throats, yet we see that the Torah attributes the song to Bnei Yisrael as if they said the Shirah. This is a chesed – kindness – of the Creator that although the person does everything, it is really HaKadosh Baruch Hu doing it, as Chazal say (Chullin 7b), “A person does not stub his toe below unless they have decreed this upon him from Above’, still, we feel as if we are doing the deeds.
With siyata d’Shmaya we have merited to produce Issue 712 which is the numerical value of 'שבתי' – Shivti [the Kollel of the Rav that produces the weekly sheet], and the truth is that we must write that this was written by the Creator Yisbarach, like all the other articles and all the weekly sheets that were produced b’siyata d’Shmaya until now. But the Creator Yisbarach in His abundance of Kindness gives us permission to write ‘produced by Kehilas Shivti Bevais Hashem...’ on the condition that we remember that everything is from Yisbarach, and for this we ‘Shirah’ before Him, and request, “Just as until now Your mercy has helped us and Your kindness has not forsaken us, so too do not abandon us Hashem, our G-d, forever. The organs that You set within us shall thank and bless, praise and glorify Your Name, our King, continuously.
-Tiv HaTorah - Beshalach
