Life Song - The nature of Shira as ultimate Geula itself, not an ancillary, which is why there was nothing to do about the חזקיהו-שירה breakdown. The very nature of “transitions” (as we used to view as thematic to this parasha) is on a more profound level the need to incorporate the relationship between בריאה וגאולה and the difference between בניסן נגאלו ובתשרי נברא עולם ועתידין ליגאל
(BW) This week’s parsha converges with Tu B’Shevat, providing a unique opportunity to realize how ge’ulah – if it is to be successful – must be directly linked to Ma’aseh Bereishis. The major obstacle to ge’ulah is k’vedut (inertia). Unable to see options, we – like Pharaoh’s chariots – get “stuck in the mud” and remain immobilized within our default positions. Our local problems get severed from any larger vision of eternity, which leads to despair.
The solution is to view our lives as shirah – not the masculine “shiur” which implies completion, but the feminine “shirah” which signals ongoing development and adaptability to new problems. “Ashirah La’Hashem b’chai” does not mean “I will sing to Hashem while I’m alive.” Instead, it means “I will make my life a song.” And, like a song, we must be able to hear it all the way through before we can come to love it. We do not need to actually be present when all things mature – but we do need to have a vision of how it might look. Like the “etz pri oseh pri,” we must, like Creation itself, always see ourselves as potential in search of actualization.

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