In this week’s Torah portion, Beshalach, we follow Am Yisrael in the moments after their liberation from slavery in Egypt. Standing at the edge of the Red Sea, they suddenly see the Egyptian army approaching. Panic sets in. In fear and desperation, they cry out, even sarcastically asking if they were brought into the wilderness because there were no graves in Egypt. “It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness,” they say. In that mom