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Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed on Parshat Bo
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Eretz Yisrael: our Right and Responsibility
The nature of our relationship to Eretz Yisrael must be based on a Torah perspective -
National Light through the Darkness
The Torah stresses the effect of the darkness during the ninth plagues as one that prevented the Egyptians from seeing and even prevented them from moving. In contrast, there was “light for all of Bnei Yisrael in their places of inhabitation. Where was there light for Bnei Yisrael and for what purpose was it stressed?