The Power of Ruach.

In September 2010, BBC, Reuters and other news agencies reported on a sensational scientific

discovery.

Researchers at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado

have shown through computer simulation how the division of the Red Sea may

have taken place. Using sophisticated modeling, they demonstrated how a strong east wind,

blowing overnight, could have pushed water back at a bend where an ancient river is believed

to have merged with a coastal lagoon.

The water would have been guided into the two waterways,

and a land bridge would have opened up at the bend,

allowing people to walk across the exposed mud flats.

As soon as the wind died down, the waters would have rushed back in.

As the leader of the project said, when the

report was published, the simulations match fairly closely with the account in Exodus.

So we now have scientific evidence to support the biblical account, though to be fair,

a very similar case was made some years ago by Colin Humphreys, Professor of

Materials Science at Cambridge University, and Professor of Experimental Physics of the Royal

Institution in London in his book, The Miracles of Exodus. To me, though, the real issue is

what the biblical account actually is, because it's just here that we have one of the most fascinating features of the way the Torah tells its stories.

Here is the key passage.

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back

with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided and the Israelites

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