The Crossing of the Red Sea was an extraordinary event, a miracle, described in detail in the book of Exodus. The waters parted to allow the Children of Israel to cross on dry land for precisely the right amount of time required to get across safely and then they returned to drown their implacable enemies.
This is the ultimate miracle, an event that breaks the boundaries of nature. To our surprise we discover that the parting of the waters to allow a people to cross is not a one -time event. There are two other instances: one when the waters of the River Jordan parted to allow the people of Israel to enter the Promised Land, and there is a further instance described in the Talmud.
This leads us to ask what conditions are required to enable the boundaries of nature to be breached and we look at the survival of the Jewish people and the establishment of the State of Israel from this perspective.