On the Parting of the Red Sea: Another look at the Israelite’s crossing of the Red Sea.

Some have said that this passage, the parting and crossing of the Red Sea in Exodus, lacks archeological authentication.  The most scholarly claim made is that the Israelite’s crossed the Sea of Reeds.  There is much imagery of the way this is done.  Most of it depicts a sea that has parted, water standing high on end, as the Israelites pass, and then once they are out of the way the sea collapses.  This is a rather uniformed way of looking at the way things happened.

In another blog, I have mentioned that there is evidence for crossing into the Arabian Peninsula from Africa at two different times, but that each of these times does not match the date given by the “Hebrew” calendar.  

Archaeology suggest that the two exoduses from Africa happened at a much earlier date than is suggested by the Hebrew calendar.  As I am writing this, the Hebrew calendar says that the world is yet to be 6,000 years old.  Yet, as I am writing this scholarly folk have think they have disproved this as the actual date.  What is certain is that the Hebrew calendar is Kabbalistically correct with some world events, but I think that it is possible that neither the Bible scholars nor the scientists have the correct answer.

I accept that the two exoduses where by Jews, where the exodus of Abraham, the first Jew, and his company represents one exodus, 

 and the exodus of Moses with the Israelites from Africa represents a second exodus.

Thus, I am deriving the word Jew from the word Abraham here, and not Judah.

The first exodus - Abraham's exodus - occurs in the book of Genesis.  The second exodus occurs in the book of Exodus.

The reason I am writing this is mainly to correct the imagery that is common to paintings.  I specifically remember traveling to Canada as a youth.  More importantly, during my journey I encountered tides that fluctuated many more feet than they do on Cape Cod.  If I remember correctly, it was said that of one area that I was in that the tide regularly fluctuated 40ft.

This is probably more than double the amount of fluctuation in my area.  This amount of fluctuation is enough that it is possible to consider that the part of the Red Sea did occur for Moses and the Israelites, but that it was a tidal fluctuation.  It is conceivable that tidal patterns change.

Thus the Israelites crossing of the Red Sea, may have possibly been due to irregularities of tidal fluctuation.  For example, tidal fluctuations in my area, predicted well in advance, are available for purchase, and it is even predictable when moon tides will occur.  A moon tide is a tidal change that is more extreme than is normal.  Thus, Moses only needed to be familiar with tidal regularities in order to cross the Red Sea at best time, in order to escape from Pharaoh’s men. 

However, I suggest, something even greater than a moon tide.  Think bigger: a great tidal wave generated by an earthquake may have been involved.  Their is  6th sense some people have when it comes to creatures activities with respect to natural disasters.  I suggest, Moses had that same sense.

Thus, I accept that it was not a sea of reeds that parted for the Israelites.  It was that the area to either side was water, and that there was an extensive stretch of sand that made it possible for Israelites to walk across at low tide, and that this was due to an earthquake.  However, by the time the Israelites had crossed, the tides were changing such that Pharaoh’s men were unable to cross, and may have drowned or been forced to swim.

“The wise man has eyes in his head; but the fool walks in darkness.” Solomon

Wise men are able to see both with their eyes and their mind’s eye.  Your mind’s eye, if you know what I refer to is a spark of wisdom, a bolt of lightning from within.

Things I have heard that describe the mind’s eye to are comparable to flashbacks that people with PTSD experience, photographic memory, which is the idea of a mind that can remember images, dreams, and being able to see a working invention in your mind before it has been built.

It is as if a wise man’s mind is double monitor computer screens, one monitor is looking inside his head, and one monitor looks outside his head.  Images and video are even capable of being transmitted.  It is even conceivable that one could be see only internally, and never externally.  Kabbalah is sometimes referred to as receiving, but information can also be transmitting though windows in the sky as well.

I just read an article based on Ethics of Our Fathers, and that interpretation is true as well.  It is that a wise man is essentially able to know an invention will work without even building it.  He sees that it will work.  Testing is usually not needed for one who knows the answer.  Additionally, artificial testing won’t help him arrive at the answer.  He either knows it or he doesn’t.  He knows the answer because he is able to derive it from what he knows.

Why then is it important not be, “Wise in your own eyes.”  My best attempt at answering this is that using one’s mind’s eye burns up nutrients too fast.  And, that while it is important to burn up nutrients, it is also important not to consume your mind zealously by causing it to fire bolts of lightning inside your head nonstop, all day long.  However, many perspectives can be taken on the wisdom of Solomon, but in my opinion that is what made him noted for wisdom.

As for fools walking in darkness, walking in darkness is a good way to get mugged.  Fools also walk in spiritual darkness, like an experimenter performing an experiment, and pretending like he doesn’t know the answer or an experimenter who performs an experiment thinking that he will find an answer in logic.  Darkness is a time to be at home.  As a friend of mine said about northern New Jersey, an area where many people are poor, many years ago, ~ "It is safe to drive anywhere during the day, but not at night."  Darkness is a time to be seated or to be reclined.  Reminds me of a time I tripped over a lawn chair in our yard.