Wednesday, February 8, 2017
OU TORAH YU TORAH NAALEH.COM Darkness Deciphered By Shira Smiles
Summary by Channie Koplowitz Stein Parshat Bo relates the last three plagues that Hashem brought upon the Egyptians. One of the most enigmatic of all the plagues was the plague of darkness. The Torah tells us that the darkness “will be tangible/ vayamesh. As properly understood, the plague lasted a total of six days, three days of a thick darkness and three additional days during which the darkness was so “tangible” that no one could move from whatever position he was in. This was indeed a strange plague whose purpose needs to be examined.