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"Once upon a time, centuries ago, a little reed box with a baby floated by Pharoah's daughter as she bathed in the Nile. The Midrash says that she stretched out her own hand and pulled in this little boat - and raised the baby who became Moses. She did it herself, not through one of her servants who were with her. But that's no miracle. That's menschlichkeit and common sense.
But my Rabbi, Matthew Simon, taught me that the Kolzker Rabbi points out the miracle of that moment: the little boat was 100 feet away - and yet she stretched out her hand and a miracle happened - her arm became long enough to pull the crude vessel to her, to begin the cycle which would end with exodus and freedom.
And this is what the Kolzker says: it is because she didn’t sit around thinking, 'Can I do it? Isn't it too far away?' but rather just did it, that the miracle happened. He says that's the way people-who-want-to-do-good things operate. They just do these things, and as a result - miracle of miracles! - they accomplish the impossible."
Danny Siegel, 1990 CAJE Education Conference
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