Shnayim Yomi - Bo - Sheni - #2

[Music] introduces to us two of the final makos of of course the ten makos that will plague mitsrayim before we encounter the very final maka of makaspahorus and that is the makkah of arbeit the makka of the locusts transitioning to the makkah of hoshek of darkness and it's fascinating because if one looks at the formulation of the basukin we will notice that each and every one of the marcos is preceded by a warning given by mosha abbaynu to paro that if you do not meet the demands of akadesparahu you will bring incredible destruction upon your nation appealing to pyro's sense of leadership and compassion and his essential role to maintain the vitality and vibrancy of his culture and of his people and yet when we encounter the makkah of hoshek which happens towards the conclusion of this ali there is no warning we transition straight from paro's insistence that the jewish people not leave following makkah's arabic to the introduction of the hoshac itself why is it that there is no warning on the part of moshe rabbenu for makkah's khosha and the answer is because because the makkah of khoshar distinguished itself from all of the other makos all of the other makos were disciplinary punitive expressions of akarshbaruku's will upon the egyptian people so to speak a response and a reaction for how they treated amuseral throughout the hundreds of years that they found themselves in slavery the final maka before the experience of makaspahoros which itself is a very different type of maca on mitzrayim the final maka is not so much a consequence or a punishment for the egyptian people but it's a revelation of their reality the notion that they have willfully and intentionally shrouded themselves in darkness the notion that even though there's so much clarity right in front of them even though they could see with such discernment the presence and the power of akareshparahu and the mistaken approach of subjugating the jewish people they choose nevertheless to persist in this behavior of subjugation of israel so it's not moshe benue coming to parole and saying if you don't let the jewish people go there's going to be darkness it's the foreshadowing of the final demise of the egyptian people insofar as they lack the ability to attain any sense of clarity and understanding and connection to what was going on around them and that really is part of the penetrating lesson of this ali that so often in life when we look around our own life experience sometimes the truth eludes us and sometimes we intentionally create a sense in an environment of darkness because we're afraid to face that truth or because we're too weak to face that truth mosh rabbenu tells the egyptian nation you're going to be shrouded in the very darkness that you've created and so therefore it's not part of the dynamic and the dialogue between moshe rabbenu and paro himself [Music] you