Bitachon

I know this should have been up last week, but I think the following idea carries a fantastic message:

Last shabbis we read about Moshe being put into a "teivah" which is the second, and last time, we hear about such a vessel in the Torah.

The question is: how is a "teivah" different than a "sfinah" or "oniyah"?

The answer is technical. The "teivah" lacks a rudder, sails, and oars. Rather, it is just a plain vessel that can stay afloat but which has no steering mechanism. This being the case, if we look at the first time we hear about a "teivah", Noach, given the explicit details that he received about measurements- why would he not build a rudder? (Or, why was he not commanded to build one?)

The purpose of a "teivah" is that a person surrenders control. Noach had no choice in any direction the teivah took nor could he change its course, it was completely in His Hands. So too the teivah of Moshe. Miriam/Yocheved had him in the teivah and released him into the water as if to say "he is Yours, we can do no more to save him."

In a word, the teivah represents "bitachon" in its heighest level. And it is only such bitachon that saved Noach. That same bitachon had Moshe float directly to the daughter of Pharaoh, where the savior of the Jewish people, and nemesis of the Ruler of Egypt who in turn raised his sworn enemy in his own house, as a grandson.

Bitachon.