There are high points and low points in a person's life. There are peaks and there are valleys. When a person can look back and see the straightness (Yashrus) of life -- that somehow, after a while, things tend to work themselves out and become straight -- that is the time when a person can utter Shirah [Song]. In retrospect, the person can see that what happened was 'straight'.
Parshas B'Shalach is the parsha of life. Life is all about the highs
and lows, the peaks and valleys. That is why this parsha, which
teaches us this lesson, is called Shabbos Shirah (the Shabbos of
Straightness, or equilibrium).
When one can look back on his life and recognize that while
there have been defeats and low moments as well as the high points,
he sees the Yashrus (straightness; fairness) of it all in retrospect, then
he can indeed utter songs of praise to G-d.
Edited here from a transcription by David Twersky; Seattle
Parshas B'Shalach is the parsha of life. Life is all about the highs
and lows, the peaks and valleys. That is why this parsha, which
teaches us this lesson, is called Shabbos Shirah (the Shabbos of
Straightness, or equilibrium).
When one can look back on his life and recognize that while
there have been defeats and low moments as well as the high points,
he sees the Yashrus (straightness; fairness) of it all in retrospect, then
he can indeed utter songs of praise to G-d.
Edited here from a transcription by David Twersky; Seattle
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