The Secret Of The Plagues: Darkness

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yehoshua Zitron’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Welcome everyone. Thank you all for joining us. Tonight we are learning Lil Nishmat. It's my grandfather's yahrzeit tonight, the fourth year. We're learning Reb Avraham ben Reb Chaim Yehuda as well as Lil Nishmat Esther Beila bas Reb Zaev as well as Yisrael ben Reb Avraham. The We're also learning Lil Nishmat to Avraham Yaakov ben Yaal and Chava bas Chaya Esther. So tonight we are going We're continuing with the ninth makah. Baruch Hashem we were able to get to here and help us so we're able to complete it. The ninth makah is makas choshech, the the plague of darkness. So we're going to jump right into this. The the plague of darkness, we know that as we're going through this series that every plague corresponds to a different saying that God created the world, meaning that God created the world in 10 sayings and because Paroh denied God who created the world with 10 sayings, Paroh is going to get 10 plagues, each one corresponding to the 10 to the 10 ways that 10 10 sayings that created the world. So this one is a very easy one to connect and that is in the that is in pasuk gimmel in the first perek of Bereishis. Vayomer Elokim yehi or vayehi or. And God said, "Let there be light and there was and there was light." Corresponding to that, took away the light and that hence we see the you know the darkness. So

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