Parshat Beshalach – Bnei Akiva of the US & Canada

Ariel Wernick observes that the text repeats the phrase about the Israelites crossing the Reed Sea. He refers to Targum Yonatan Uziel, which wrote that 2 Jews, Datan and Aviram, were happy in Egypt and refused to leave. When they were forced to leave against their will, the second phrase refers to the splitting of the sea a second time for them.