אני מאמין באמונה שלמה בביאת המשיח ואף על פי שיתמהמה עם כל זה אחכה לו בכל יום שיבוא.

ID - Identity

            In Parasha B'shallach we see the Israelites as firsthand witnesses to the work of G-d in redeeming them from life in Egypt and Pharaoh. After their Passover evening in which they were spared, Israel departed Egypt. Soon after, they reached to the shores of Yam Suf, or the Red Sea, with Pharaoh and his army hot on their trail. Just as Pharaoh approached G-d's flock to annihilate them, G-d intervened and brought them through the Red Sea in victory.

What we've witnessed in this story is how G-d's work has the effect of rescuing. In the wider framework of the Exodus story however, we see that G-d's purpose is to give us a change of identity, from slaves to free. A new calendar as well was given, suggesting a new order of seasons imposed by G-d, all so as to brake from Egyptian culture and influence. As a nation, Israel was to have an identity in its own right.

Shaul, has offered some insight into the crossing of the Red Sea as being a type of baptism:

1 Corinthians 10:1-2: "Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;"

This is showing that to baptize one’s self is to claim identification with something. But baptism itself does bring up connotations of death.

Romim / Romans 6:3: "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Yeshua haMashiach were baptized into his death?"