English of Core Text: It was taught: there are twenty-four kinds of shechin, and none is harder… than ra’atan… and with it Pharaoh was struck, as it is said “Hashem afflicted Pharaoh with great plagues.”
On the daf / in context: The baraita identifies the “great plagues” of the verse with the most severe form of skin affliction known to the Sages.
Type of Learning
Custom
What Is Learned
“Great plagues” is read as a specific, especially severe form of shechin (ra’atan).