In The Daylight We See: We Are Not Alone
3 min readJan 26, 2024
A Reflection on Parashat Bo
The Rabbis teach that King David would wake at midnight to study Torah. Somehow, before the invention of clocks King David could intuit the precise moment that the clock strikes twelve.
The Talmud is confounded. How is this possible? Not even Moses knew exactly when the middle of the night was. As it says in Parashat Bo:
