Praying with my Feet

(9) On the twenty-second of Shevat the decree requiring worship of idols, which the enemies intended to bring into the Temple, was nullified. No public mourning on that day. (10) Caligula had sent an idol to be placed in the Temple. The news reached Jerusalem on the eve of the chag [Sukkot]. (11) Shimon the Tzadik said to them, “Celebrate your festival with joy, for none of those words will come to pass. The one whose presence dwells in this house, just as he made miracles for our ancestors in every generation, he will also make miracles for us at this time."(12) When he saw that soldiers were coming, he said to them, “Go out before they come [and stand] before them." Messengers went out and stood before them. One messenger went to Acco, the second to Tzur, the third to Tzidan, the fourth to Kaziv. (13) When the thing became known, all the notables of Jerusalem went out before [Caligula’s emissary]. They said, “We will die before accept this decree.” They cried out and beseeched the emissary. (14) The emissary said to them, “Instead of crying out and beseeching me, why don’t you cry out and beseech your God in heaven?" (15) When he arrived at each city, he saw people coming out before him from each city. When he saw them he was surprised, and thought how numerous they are. (16) They said to him, “These are the Jews who come out to confront you from every city.” 17) [But when] he entered the cities and saw people lying in the marketplaces in sackcloth and ashes. (18) He hadn’t reached Antipatris when a letter arrived announcing Caligula’s assassination. Immediately the idol was taken down and given to the Jews who dragged it [through the streets]. Shimon heard a voice from the Holy of Holies that said, “The worship of idols in the Temple is nullified. Caligula has been slain and his decrees nullified.” They wrote it at that exact hour. (19) That same day was declared a yom tov.

(15) And the LORD said unto Moses: ‘Wherefore criest thou unto Me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward.

Rabbi Eliezer: God said to Moses, “There is a time to shorten and a time to lengthen. My children are distressed, the sea is closing, the enemy is pursuing, and you are standing there going on and on with prayer?!? Say to the children of Israel, 'Go forth!'”
Rabbi Joshua: God said to Moses, “There is nothing else for Israel to do except go forward. Go forth: when their legs go forth from the dry land to the sea, you will see the miracles that I will do for them.’