Shabbat Shirah takes its name from one of the most powerful poems in the Torah: Shirat HaYam, the Song of the Sea, which we read in Parashat Beshalach. It is the song that bursts forth after the crossing of the Yam Suf, after the miracle, after salvation. Yet the Torah, faithful to its radical honesty, does not begin with music. It begins with fear.   The people are trapped. Behind them stand Pharaoh and his army; before them, the sealed sea. There is no strategy, no visible