How the Plague of Darkness Was Actually Light | Parshas Bo – Parsha Preview

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

All right, thank you for coming again. I appreciate you showing up and coming. Today is Thursday and it's been 4,398 days since the same Thursday of January 2nd, 2014. So that was 12 years ago to the day, 4,398 days. And I'm going to tell you a fascinating story about that day. Before I do, um, I story about that day. Before I do, um, I just want to preface this is this week is para's bow and bow is gimmatria 3 and we know this the last three of the makos are in this week's para arbe the locust locust and kosh darkness and makas bakaras um I had planned that I was going to say that today I want to talk about darkness and as I said that I would have already spoken to somebody and they would have flipped the lights off. At the same moment I said darkness, it would have turned dark. I was going it would have turned dark. I was going to do that but I forgot. So you could imagine just pretend the lights turned off and like the dramatic effect. Pretty cool, right? Okay. I know. Okay. So, excuse me. So I want to focus on three the three primary that deal with the Torah tells us in Shimos 10 21. So it says to Moshe stretch out your hand to the sky to the

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1. 0:00All right, thank you for coming again. I appreciate you showing up and coming. Today is…
2. 2:05in the eyes of the Egyptians. That's one opinion. Says the next Moshe listened to Hashem.…
3. 4:43officially that the says he says it was the last of the of the makos >>…
4. 7:15really the alterba's quote it's really probably earlier from the alivavos and others >> wasn't darkness…
5. 9:19mystical on high says the malam. The Malam says that it's we're not talking about darkness.…
6. 11:56on the shamish, the shamish says that through the power um of he says really darkness…
7. 14:29receive the to them to those people had this it was the same light coming down…
8. 16:35and I say here I I just opened up to a random puk and I and…
9. 19:06away the wall. Now you could see it. Now you take that and you put it…
10. 21:44always thought that this was a joke. Um but this week the same week of paras…

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