Miriam's Song

http://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/2744/jewish/Miriams-Song.htm

I thought that this source was a very interesting piece of information. It goes into the Jewish culture and a little bit more of what the Torah and history behind the Passover and the splitting of the Red Sea mean in the Jewish culture, but more importantly it goes into the importance and significance of the song that Miriam sang after her people were freed from Egypt, and what that meant to them at the time.

I think that the song that Miriam and Moses rejoice in after the Israelites were freed from slavery was just as important as the process of when they all actually left Egypt, because it demonstrated God's redemptive grace as much as it showed how we should all rejoice in that. This source mentions both when Moses sings a song of joy to the Lord and when Miriam does, and why it was important that Miriam, as a woman who experienced so much persecution and whose name means "bitterness," sang the song. The source talks about 'galut,' which means exile and persecution, and the part that faith and again redemption play in this song of the Bible. Although we have already talked through this passage, I thought that this was an interesting take on the rejoicing of the exodus from Egypt, and shouldn't necessarily be skipped.