אלו שקע צרנו בתוכו ולא ספק צרכנו במדבר ארבעים שנה דינו “*If God had pushed down our enemies into the sea but had not supplied our needs in the wilderness for forty years, dayyenu.”* Instead, if we had died immediately upon seeing the vengeance against our enemies, it would have been enough. Because it is the way of all human beings to say, “I would gladly die if I could witness the downfall of my enemies. But God wanted us to live in the wilderness for forty years, in a place of snakes and scorpions. God gave us everything we lacked; even clothing and shoes, as is written, “The clothes upon you did not wear out, nor did your feet swell these forty years.” (Deut. 8:4) The Maggid refers to this when he says, “ supplied our needs in the wilderness for forty years,” using the same language of the blessing for putting on shoes, “(Praised are You…) “Who has provided for me all of my needs.” This statement is placed before the eating of manna because “providing our needs,” came before the manna, which did not happen until the sixteenth of Iyyar, while clothing was provided as soon as they left Egypt.