<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0000ff">RAM writes:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0000ff">---</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0000ff"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">In pasuk 9:19, Moshe is told to warn the Egyptians that the hail would affect only what is outdoors; they must bring everything indoors where it will be protected.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">This struck me as unusual. What makes this makkah different, that such a warning -- more than just a warning, he gave advice! -- was given? If Hashem had chosen to do so, the hail could have come even indoors where the roof would be of no help. It almost seems like a humanitarian gesture, as if Hashem were signalling that He's not *totally* anti-Egypt; but if so, then why only for this one makkah?</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Does anyone talk about this aspect of this particular makkah?</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0000ff">---</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0000ff">R'Akiva, I'm sorry you could not be with your usual <i>minyan</i> this past Shabbos morning, else you might have heard me try to answer that very question based on P'Vaeira thoughts from RYReisman. Since you posted it, here's the <a href="https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/torah-conferencing-network/c/2c3ykMcL6YE">text of those thoughts</a> as someone recorded them late last week....</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0000ff">===</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0000ff"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Uniqueness of the Makka of Barad. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The
Parsha ends with Makkas Barad. As you know, not all 10 Makkos are in one Parsha
and the 7<sup>th</sup> Makka Makkas Barad is the last Makka that is in this
week’s Parsha. Makkas Barad is unique in many ways. One way that it is unique
is that the Mitzrim had an opportunity to escape. All other Maakos would happen
to them wherever they were. Here, Moshe Rabbeinu tells the Mitzrim B’feirush in
9:19 (<span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">וְעַתָּה,
שְׁלַח הָעֵז אֶת-מִקְנְךָ, וְאֵת כָּל-אֲשֶׁר לְךָ, בַּשָּׂדֶה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>).
He tells them that if you go into the house you will be saved. (<span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">כָּל-הָאָדָם וְהַבְּהֵמָה
אֲשֶׁר-יִמָּצֵא בַשָּׂדֶה, וְלֹא יֵאָסֵף הַבַּיְתָה--וְיָרַד עֲלֵהֶם הַבָּרָד,
וָמֵתוּ</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>). So here we have a unique Makka, we have a Makka in which the
Mitzrim are told ahead of time that this is something from which you can be
saved. So it seems to be something of a lighter Makka in the fact that they
could be saved. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A
second unique thing about Barad that it doesn’t say by any other Makka is that
the Makka of Barad begins in 9:14 with the warning (<span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">כִּי בַּפַּעַם הַזֹּאת, אֲנִי שֹׁלֵחַ
אֶת-כָּל-מַגֵּפֹתַי אֶל-לִבְּךָ</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>). Hashem says I am sending you all My
punishments. All My punishments? Is Barad all My punishments? It is very hard
to understand. Rashi tries to answer the question in a way that is difficult as
all of the Sifsei Chachamim and the others say and what does it mean that Barad
is (<span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">אֶת-כָּל-מַגֵּפֹתַי</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>)?
It is very hard to understand. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A
third thing that is unique about Barad. Here Pharoh says as is found in 9:27 (<span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">חָטָאתִי הַפָּעַם</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>).
He says (<span lang="HE" dir="RTL">יְרוָר, הַצַּדִּיק, וַאֲנִי וְעַמִּי,
הָרְשָׁעִים</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>). What is going on here? Such a unique Makka, so many things
that are unique about Barad, and of course when we say it we say (<span lang="HE" dir="RTL">דְּצַ"ךְ עַדַ"שׁ בְּאַחַ"ב</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>), we just throw it
into the mix, but we must be missing something that is unique about Barad. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">It
would seem that what is unique about Barad was that there was something of a
mind game here. Something like a psychological attack. HKB”H said (<span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">אֲנִי שֹׁלֵחַ
אֶת-כָּל-מַגֵּפֹתַי אֶל-לִבְּךָ</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>), it doesn’t say by any Makka that the
Makka is (<span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">אֶל-לִבְּךָ</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>)
to your heart, to your emotion. Hashem says, here this Makka is different. This
Makka is something that emotionally you are going to have to connect to. Why
so? Every other Makka there was nothing you could do, you couldn’t do anything
about it. The Dam was going to happen, the Tzefardai’a was going to happen, you
were stuck. There was nothing to think about, there were no options. Here, for
the very first time, the Mitzrim had options. Moshe Rabbeinu said if you want,
recognize that HKB”H has the ability to bring Barad and get into your homes,
bring your animals into your homes. You have a way out. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This
was very unique. This is (<span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">אֶת-כָּל-מַגֵּפֹתַי</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>) the whole message of all of the Makkos is
(<span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">אֶל-לִבְּךָ</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>),
take it to heart. Here Moshe Rabbeinu says look at yourselves in the mirror,
look at what you are going through. Recognize the Emes of what is around you,
and indeed this time Pharoh said (<span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">חָטָאתִי</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>), he at least temporarily had some
regrets. So what is unique about the Makka of Barad is the (<span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">אֶל-לִבְּךָ</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>), a very unique
Makka. It is a Makka where they would be challenged to take to heart the
message of all of the Makkos. So here is an explanation of something about the
Barad and this by itself is good as an explanation of the Parsha.</span></p></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0000ff">===</div></div>