"When the children of Israel came to the Red Sea, and Moses prayed long, the Holy One said to him: “My children are in trouble, the sea before them and the enemy behind them, and you stand here indulging in long prayers!”"
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Eliezer b. Hyrcanus. Mefalta, to Exod. 14.15.
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