אָ֣ז יָשִֽׁיר־משֶׁה֩ וּבְנֵ֨י יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל אֶת־הַשִּׁירָ֤ה הַזֹּאת֙ לַֽיהֹוָ֔ה וַיֹּֽאמְר֖וּ לֵאמֹ֑ר אָשִׁ֤ירָה לַּֽיהֹוָה֙ כִּֽי־גָאֹ֣ה גָּאָ֔ה ס֥וּס וְרֹֽכְב֖וֹ רָמָ֥ה בַיָּֽם: "Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the Lord, and they spoke, saying, I will sing to the Lord, for very exalted is He; a horse and its rider He cast into the sea." (Shemos 15:1) The above translation of the passuk is wrong. Like most translations, the translators made a correction so that the passuk would make sense. In doing so we lose some of the important subtleties that lie beneath the surface of the text. The accurate translation is, " Then Moses and the children of Israel will sing this song to the Lord, and they spoke, saying, I will sing to the Lord, for very exalted is He; a horse and its rider He cast into the sea. " The problem with this translation is that there is a clear grammatical error. The Torah is teaching us what happened in the past, not what will will happen in the future? Why does the Torah tell us about a song that will be sung as opposed to the song that was sang at the Yam Suf? Rashi based on the Medrash and the Gemara explains, "Our Rabbis of blessed memory stated: From here is an allusion from the Torah to the resurrection of the dead (Sanhedrin 91b, Mechilta)." Rashi is explaining that there is a song that has yet to be sung but after techiyas hameisim, the resurrection of the dead, it will be sung. But in truth, Rashi leaves us with more questions tha
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