Erev Rav

Mixed many-Exodus 12:38  in the golden calf incidents where the people questioned Moses. Egyptians and other Traitor Involved persons were the mixed many who had joined the Exodus.

 This period coincided with a series of strokes that first affected the parietal lobes, esp. speech, that taught me a lot about consciousness. For instance I found out, in the last, where my leg gave out in the midst of a parking lot job and I fell to the ground, that when I got up and walked toward another worker, but could not speak, I realized there was nowhere to go and just stopped, arm frozen in mid air. Among more severe cases Queen Elizabeth at the end sat two weeks on the floor at the foot of her bed unmoving. When they tried to rouse her she stood in one spot for 13 hrs with a finger in her mouth. Now you know about ordinary life. These effects passed in a few hours from this instance, but their memory has not.  Two events in the middle of the night while asleep also occurred, conscious but not conscious, a sort of semi coma, from which I awoke after some time, got up and took aspirin, and joined my wife in bed, whose counsel was, just lie here and relax, it will pass. People who present at ER with these events, after the wait, are given aspirin and sent off for it to pass. From these events and one other I query the  state of people who die in their sleep, for now I think they are sensate and do feel what is happening to them, but since they are not uttered or witnessed, as it were unexpressed, only in thought--is thought expression? no. These background the entire concept of Banquo's Safe, written by confederate, Jon Rousseau, where "Assassins may kill you softly in sleep but the victim knows the headlines in the Times Square of his mind, color and sound." That is not just hot air. It happens. The accumulative insight of all this looks far more deeply into the relation of the seen and unseen and what awareness of these might be, and farther into the relation of language and thought. So at issue is what happens in the mind of a stroke victim when the brain so quickly rewires its impulses? And if not it loses its ability of outer expression, a lima bean with motor skill paralysis. But it is alive. So it is a parable, it is alive but seens dead. Let us imagine the opposite case therefore, that it is dead but seems alive. Does not that describe the events, factors, features of the entire Erev Rav?