Chelek 21, Bo 01- Rabbi Ari Shishler

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ahead of the 12th and final plague in this week's Parish of the death of the first borns mosha tells Paro what time the plague will strike and Rashi gives us two interpretations of what mosha is telling Paro why do we need two interpretations what's bothering Rashi and why is it important for par to know the time of the plague anyway especially when you consider he wasn't even told which day the plague would happen commenting on the where M quotes hm to saying at of the night Hashem is going to go into Egypt and smite the first borns quotes those two words and gives two explanations the first one is the simplest explanation to suit the context as is that the word over there means the division the splitting of the night then at the time where the night is splitting into the early and later part of the night that's when Hashem is going to strike tells us that if you go with this interpretation the word is not a description of half rather it is it is an action it's a verb and he quotes various examples where you see that the Torah uses a descriptive word actually as a verb that's explanation number one and then B Ru then he quotes that our sages interpret the it's like saying at roundabout midnight and they explain in this med that mosha told par will be round about midnight and the reason he was deliberately vague is in case the astrologers of get the time wrong they didn't have Watchers in those days and they say is fake fake news interpretation is a noun that describes

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1. 0:00ahead of the 12th and final plague in this week's Parish of the death of the…
2. 3:13precedes the word is giving us a time frame like the examples that quotes sorry quotes…
3. 7:03midnight but even though it's clear that Mo's message cannot be that the is unsure or…
4. 10:14Med Now the easiest way that we would want to explain it but it's not going…
5. 13:53midnight as he promised there would be enough reason for mosha to take that all into…
6. 17:12heading he's not worried about the interpretation of the word if that's an appropriate thing to…
7. 20:57plague from rather is part of the description of the nature and quality of this plague…
8. 24:13night that moment of splitting the night from its first to second part is not a…
9. 27:59there's no question doing this it was exactly what wanted truth is there's something even deeper…
10. 31:16advice which means that they actually have the knowhow to determine the time frame that they…

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