Aliya Summary: Moshe stretched out his hands and swarms of locusts
swept down on Egypt. They consumed absolutely every blade of grass and
all the crops. Pharaoh beseeched Moshe to pray to G‑d for the removal of
the locusts, promising to then release the Israelites. Moshe prayed,
and no sooner than a wind carried the locusts back to the Red Sea and
Pharaoh changed his mind yet again. Plague Nine: A frightful darkness
descended upon Egypt. For days, the entire nation was incapacitated by
the debilitating pitch darkness. "But for all the children of Israel
there was light in their dwellings."
"Man did not see
his fellow, nor did a person rise from his place..." The Chidushei HaRim
writes that this is a description of the worse kind of darkness in
human life, when a person does not see the suffering of his fellow. Not
only does he not extend his hand to help the other, but the ultimate
result is the inability of the individual to even help himself. The
opposite must be true as well, then. Seeing the suffering of others is
the ultimate "light at the end of the tunnel", both for the sufferer,
and for their "fellows."
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