Zohar on Tehillim 114 – The Sea Saw and Fled
Tehillim 114:3
- "Hayam ra'ah vayanos" - (The sea saw and fled...)
When the Jews crossed the Yam Suf, Joseph's coffin entered the sea first, and the water could not stand before it: "the sea saw and fled".
Why did it "flee"?
The sea saw the man about whom the Torah says: "and he fled and went outside."
(Genesis 38:12)
This was Joseph, who broke free from the Egyptian woman's grasp.
(Zohar on Pinchas, Sulam, Rabbi Tzvi Nissanzon)