Secrets of The Ninth Plague of Egypt
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0:10After this, we're arriving at the next plague, number nine. Number nine is a very, very interesting plague, not only because of the plague itself, but also what happened with it. It's something that's supposed to teach us a lot about today. So after, Pharaoh does not do teshuva. Vayomer Hashem el Moshe: neteh yadecha al ha-shamayim v'yehi choshech al eretz Mitzrayim v'yamesh choshech. Hashem said to Moshe, stretch forth your hand towards the heavens, and there shall be darkness upon the land of Mitzrayim. And the darkness will be tangible. What is tangible? Tangible, you can touch it. It's kashur, but you can touch it. So, the Midrash says, it also says here, there's two periods. Ramban actually says, There's two periods of three days. During the first three days, there was so much darkness that you couldn't see anything. It was like a fog; you couldn't see anything. One person was here, and the next person was right next to him, yet you couldn't see him. Nothing. You couldn't see anything. But the next three days took it to the next level, where it was tangible. The actual darkness was tangible, meaning...
1:29You can feel it, where whatever position you were in, you stayed like that for three days. So if somebody sat down, they couldn't get up for three days. If somebody jumped up in the air, they were stuck in the air for three days. If somebody was bent over, they were bent over for three days. They couldn't move. The darkness was consuming. It literally was like a... clay of some kind that kept you exactly where you are. And on top of it, to make it even more scary, there were very, very scary noises. And you can't do anything about it. And you can't move, can't do anything about it. If you're on the ladder, if you're... I have a question. Why do you do the shiur in Hebrew? Because... I've been doing this show in English for over a year and a half now. Okay. Sometimes people come and they speak; most people speak English, sometimes people speak Hebrew, but most of the fans are on the internet, and 90% of them speak English. Oh, okay. But on Thursday, I do a show in Hebrew; you can come. Thursday? Thursday. Every Thursday? Thursday, we do it in Hebrew. Okay. So now...
2:46The new guy has requests. What do you want? So anyway, the darkness, they're all stuck in it. It says, so no one could rise from his place for a three-day period. It says it's Meforash here. So during this time, the Jews went to the Egyptians. They went to the Egyptian houses to see what the Egyptian people had because Moshe asked them. Hashem asked Moshe to do Him a favor. It's actually very interesting. It says, "Daber na." "Na" means "please." Hashem is talking to Moshe: "Daber na be'oznei ha'am." So it says, please speak in the ears of the people. Let each man request of his fellow, and each woman from her fellow, silver vessels and gold vessels. So during the Plague of Darkness, the Jews went into the houses of the Egyptians to see what they had, but they didn't take anything. So after...
4:11The plague was over. It says that Hashem granted the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians. The Egyptians came back. They thought that, you know, they've been stuck. They haven't been able to see anything for, you know, for a week almost. So they figured that during that week, the Jews probably came into the house and stole everything. Instead, they came into the house and saw everything was there. The Jews didn't take even one spoon. What a Kiddush Hashem. Because they could have taken everything. They could have left. They could have done whatever they wanted. A big Kiddush Hashem. So it says that they liked them now. They found favor in their eyes. The Egyptians, the actual Egyptian people, liked the Jews now. They said, "Wow, what honest people. They could have stolen everything. They didn't steal anything." That's kiddush Hashem.
