Shabbos V'eira- 2

We know that every single word of the Torah has inherent holiness and each and every letter is accounted for and has special significance. It is a wonder then why there is a pasuk in this weeks Parsha that is seemingly chock full of superfluous words!

And Hashem said to Moshe, "stretch out your hand towards the heavens, and let there be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon the people and upon the animals and upon all of the vegetation of the field in the land of Egypt."(9:22)

The obvious question is that if hail was falling "in all the land of Egypt" why does the pasuk need to delineate the exact places where it fell? If it fell in all the land then obviously it fell in all these places?!

Answers the Brisker Rav that the pasuk is teaching us that the hail did NOT fall indiscriminately but rather only where there were people or livestock. True that it fell throughout the land but the pasuk wants to emphasize that this was no generic hailstorm but rather a storm that was being directly guided by the Divine Hand as well.

Nothing happens by chance, even the raindrops of a storm are directed by Hakadosh Baruch Hu!