Are Locust Kosher?

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e so good morning so let's start with the partial the paral this week is called Bo or Bo which means come and it starts with hasem telling mosha to come to pharaoh toward him about plague number eight last week we had seven plagues we got three more this week the first one is the plague of locust and so mosha Wars Pharaoh that if you do not let the people go there will be Locust and they will eat up all the vegetation and so Pharaoh refuses to let the people go Mo Pharaoh's servants the people go Mo Pharaoh's servants though turn to Pharaoh after mosha and says you can't let this guy continue Egypt is being destroyed so Pharaoh calls back Moshe and he says who's going to go remember Moshe had only asked to go for three days to sacrifice to Hashem he had not asked for more than that so Moshe said we're going with our old with our young with our adults with our children with our all our animals and phah said no just the adults should go leave the children behind I'm afraid if you take the children you're not going to come to come back and so mosha refuses and um so mosha leaves and indeed he brings the plague of locust that covers all of Egypt eats all of the vegetation so that there is no vegetation left then um Moshe then Hashem tells mosha bring the ninth plague which is a plague of Darkness where for three days it is dark according to the mid was six for six days uh it is dark and no one is able to the Egyptians are not able to see while Israel has plenty of light our

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