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Midrash Raba Bo 4 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Madras Rabat para Shabbat sheer #4 So yesterday we spoke about
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  darkness. Now the Madras continues.
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  Hachakla mahevila alehem. Why was darkness one of the
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  templates? So it barach shemash like kadosh
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  baruku. Blessed be the name of Hashem,
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  says the Madras. Anathan out myself on him.
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  There is no partiality in judgement.
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  Wu hokelev mukhin khayat God examines people enormous
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  thoughts and that's how he judges us.
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  Lafitte chiyu pashim Bistro since there were sinners amongst
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  the Jewish people, Shia lahem patronym in Hamidzum who had
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  Egyptian patrons and these sinners enjoyed wealth and
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  honour in Egypt and therefore they didn't want to leave.
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  So Hashem says if I bring a plague just against the Jewish
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  people, the ones who are bad and they perish, the Egyptians will
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  say, well, okay, we get punished.
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  They get punished. There's nothing to learn.
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  It's just, this is just what's happening right now.
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  And therefore the three days was to punish the the Jews.
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  Good day she you cover me to him.
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  They could bury their dad and no one would see.
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  The enemies wouldn't see, and the Jewish people then could
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  give praise to Hashem, The Humishaprim Lakados barako al
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  kah. Really fascinating.
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  So if yesterday we suggested that in conclusion of the debate
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  between the two rabbis, whether the Hoshak was from Shamim or
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  from Gehenam, and we argued that it came from Gehenam as a
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  consequence of the bad deeds of the Egyptians.
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  That's the nature of the plague. But why did the plague come
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  about? To have nothing necessarily to
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  do with the Egyptians. It was to do with the Jews.
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  And therefore there was no wiggle room.
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  The Egyptians would have thought, oh, this must be
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  another punishment for us and we have to learn from it because
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  clearly they, they didn't see the real purpose of the plague
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  of a van. They were stuck with the
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  consequences of it, but they they didn't recognize it was
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  directed towards the Jewish people and therefore they
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  understood that it was against them again.
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  And how deep or how bad was this darkness of the puzzle says by
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  he hosheh Afela. There was a thick darkness.
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  So again it's the strangers Hosheh Afela seems to be a
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  darkness of darkness. So I'm a Rev Abdimi Dimin Haifa
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  Otto Rashad Kafu Umukhu Palhaya Ravdimi from Kreifer said that
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  darkness was doubled and redoubled.
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  You could touch it. It was a palpable form of
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  darkness which got worse and worse as the Madrid likes to
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  paint. For us it was a seven day
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  plague. The first three days.
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  Misha Yoshua will be Keshl Ahmad Ahmed.
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  Someone was sitting and wanted to stand.
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  They were able to do so, and those who were sitting down and
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  wanted to to now, so one who was standing onto the sit could now
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  do so. That's the first part.
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  During those three days the darkness was dense only to blind
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  them, but not to stop them moving around.
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  But I would imagine you'd be pretty terrified to move around
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  with the whole nation that can't see.
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  But then the last three days, Misha Ayashev, lawyer holla mod,
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  those who were sitting couldn't stand for how Ahmed and those
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  who were standing couldn't sit down.
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  Misha Ayashra vets this who were bent over.
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  They couldn't stand at all. So it was pretty miserable.
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  So we know already, and I'm sure you're familiar with this, this
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  idea from the Madras because we generally learn it from Rashi,
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  that they were searching for the gold and silver in the home.
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  So we could, they couldn't be interfered with.
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  But it's interesting because if the Jews were being buried, then
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  that seems to be good enough reason to immobilize the
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  Egyptians rather than having to talk about that they were
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  searching their property for goods to pay back the fees that
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  they weren't being paid. And when the pasuk in Tillam
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  says NEA la ragli de Varaca, your word is a lamp for my feet
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  and for orlin and TRT and light for my path.
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  That is a reference to how the Jewish people in the shrine were
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  able to go around. This is a an illusion to Hashem
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  provided light for the Jews whilst it was dark for the
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  Egyptians. They tell us the plague was
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  seven days. You have three days you could
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  move around, 3 days you couldn't move around.
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  So what about the 7th day? 3 + 3 via Zayn Shah Rosha was by
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  the Yamsuf when they couldn't see Vahi Anand Vah Rosha.
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  The Egyptians were clouded in darkness by Yahat Alaila.
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  But while the light was illuminated for the Jewish
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  people to be able to continue on their journey.
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  And on that, another passive that I'm sure everyone's
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  familiar with. Hashem ori Vyishi.
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  Hashem is my light and my salvation.
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  Have a fantastic day.