A short Insight into YEHOSHUA, Chapter 3 By Rabbi Nisson Dov Miller

In today's perek we read about the Bnei Yisroel's miraculous crossing of the Jordan River – finally entering Eretz Yisrel after forty years in the desert. In possuk 13 we read, “It was when the soles of the feet of the kohanim – carriers of the ark of G-d, Master of the Earth – touched the waters of the Jordan that the waters split ...” When comparing the splitting of the Jordan River with the Splitting of the Sea when Bnei Yisroel came out of Mitzrayim, we remember that only after Nachshon ben Aminadav had jumped into the Sea and cried out “G-d, save me, for the waters have reached my soul” did the sea split.