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Midrash Raba Bo 3 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Midrash rather Parrish at botsheer #3.
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  So let's turn our attention to the plague of darkness.
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  Vigate Moshe Tiador. Moshe stretches out his hand
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  towards the heavens. Vigahi khoshek al Fela.
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  There was thick darkness throughout the land of Egypt, so
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  the Madrid asked a good question.
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  Mahekah nahe hai khoshekaho. From where was the darkness that
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  plagued Egypt? The question here is that this
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  was not a absence of light, but was a somehow a physical
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  reality, something tangible, this darkness.
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  So rabi Hooda ami Rabi Hooda, says Mehshak Shamala.
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  It came from the darkness on high in heaven.
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  Why? Because the puzzle says Moschet
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  stretches his hand, Allah shall mine towards the heavens.
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  What's the imagery? What's the symbol here in direct
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  response to Para rejecting Hashem, who we metaphorically
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  describe as being in heaven in heaven's So he was punished from
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  that space that represents Hashem.
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  So a punishment came from heaven from the place that he had
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  rejected. Robbie Nekhemiah says the kosher
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  shell get her number. He flipped it right upside down.
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  This was a darkness that came from hell.
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  How's Rob Nekomiya saying the darkness?
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  This is not a punishment as a rejection of Hashem, but it's
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  the cruel treatment of the Jewish people.
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  So this is a this is a darkness that punishes for something they
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  did to someone else. And then it just helps us a
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  little bit by understanding the the severity of this darkness by
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  saying O La La by it. Woe to the house.
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  Shekhalo Nautaud, Who's windows? It's a funny image.
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  Normally you have windows because they point to, they
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  allow lights to come in, so woe to the place that the only
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  windows they have open up on further darkness.
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  There's no other source of light, and even those open to
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  darkness darkening the house even further.
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  And the Madras does what the Madras does best.
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  Quotes a series of verses to demonstrate the thickness of
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  this How How dark is this darkness or how thick is the
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  darkness? And then we have Rabbi Hooda by
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  Rabbi Asses. But may Harry shame it Kasimba
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  Gehenna. It's an interesting question
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  with what are the wicked covered in Gehenna?
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  And the answer is with darkness. And to elaborate on this, we
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  have a it gets more fascinating. Hiskia says you have an
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  earthenware barrel. But remember, Cassie, what would
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  you cover a earthenware VAT? VAT with the cliche Harris with
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  another vessel that's made out of earthenware Cacheim Shihi
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  Shah Harris, just like it is made of earthenware.
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  So you cover it with the earthenware similarly and hits
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  the point is building up to what is what is written regarding the
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  wicked people, the hayabu mashaqma sehem and the deeds are
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  done in darkness. Lefiqaq.
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  Therefore, as a as a mid, a connected mid, as a tit for tat.
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  So similarly Hashem will cover them in darkness as well.
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  So in light to this, in light of this, get the pun.
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  Have they all met? One could say harsha shabala
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  mitzrim mitak gehenum haya. The darkness that covered came
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  upon the Egyptians was from Gehenam.
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  Their darkness in their lives produced the darkness that they
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  received, and therefore in the debate between Rabihuda and Rabi
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  Nakamiya, we seem to be saying that the darkness came from
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  Gehenam. This was a punishment for their
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  wickedness against the Jewish people and not as a punishment
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  against their rejection of Hashem.
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  Take care, Have a wonderful day.