Overview
- Exodus 10:22–23 describes three days of immobilizing darkness in Egypt while the Israelites had light in their homes.
- Rashi’s commentary portrays a deepening, two-stage darkness that left people unable to see one another or even change posture.
- The Jewish Journal piece frames the plague as moral blindness that dehumanizes, teaching that redemption begins by truly seeing others as brothers and sisters.
- HaRav Dov Begon situates today’s challenges in a generational shift from exile to revival, urging a move from darkness to light in Israeli society.
- Begon’s prescriptions include increased Torah study, more heartfelt prayer, expanded acts of kindness, helping new olim acclimate, and enlisting on the battlefield and the home front.