Hailey M. '18 describes the final 3 plagues (makot) inflicted upon Pharoah and the Egyptians.

1. Parsha PowerPoints Presents
Parshat Bo
Hailey M. ‘18

2. Why only three plagues
in one parsha?
• Rav Wolfson explains that the locust, darkness
and death of the first born plagues are
different because they are beyond nature, so
they should be separated from the rest.
• The gematria for Bo is three to show the three
plagues it mentions.

3. Again…
Moshe and Aaron came to pharaoh
and said let my people go! And
pharaoh said no!

4. Plague #8 - Locusts
“If you refuse to let them go, I am going to bring
locusts into your land,” Moshe said.
They obscured the view of all the earth, the earth
became darkened, and they ate all the vegetation
of the earth and all the fruits of the trees, which
the hail had left over, and no greenery was left in
the trees or in the vegetation of the fields
throughout the entire land of Egypt.

5. Bye, Bye, Locusts…
Hashem reversed a very strong west wind,
and it picked up the locusts and threw
them into the Red Sea. Not one locust
remained within all the borders of Egypt.

6. … And Hello, Darkness
And there will be darkness over the land of
Egypt, and the darkness will become darker.
Then there was thick darkness over the entire
land of Egypt for three days. They did not see
each other, and no one rose from his place for
three days, but for all the children of Israel there
was light in their houses.

7. During the darkness, all of the Jews went
into the Egyptians’ houses when no one
could look and they borrowed the jewels
and treasures from them.

8. Rosh Chodesh Nissan
Hashem pronounced
after the darkness that
this month will be the
head of the months
and the first of the
months of the year.

9. How to sacrifice
Moshe said to the entire community,
“On the tenth of this month, let each
one take a lamb for each parental
home, a lamb for each household. But if
the household is too small for a lamb,
then he and his nearest neighbor will
take according to the number of people,
each one according to one's ability to
eat.

10. Now what?
You will have a perfect one year old, male lamb
and take it either from the sheep or from the
goats. And you will keep it for inspection until
the fourteenth day, and the entire congregation
of Israel will slaughter it in the afternoon. Then
you will take some of the blood and put it on the
two doorposts and on the lintel, on the houses in
which they will eat it.

11. Plague #10 – Death of 1 Born st
I will pass through the land of Egypt on this
night, and I will smite every firstborn in
the land of Egypt, both man and animal
and the blood will be for you for a sign
upon the houses where you will be, and I
will see the blood and skip over you, and
there will be no plague to destroy you
when I smite the firstborns of Egypt.