Human: What is the significance of the blind man being Israel? Assistant: 
The blind man is Israel, as says, "We grope for the wall like the blind, yea, as they that have no eyes do we grope; we stumble at noon-day as in the twilight" (and the Israelites stumbled in the matter of the Golden Calf at midday). God illumined the way for the Israelites (after they stumbled with the Calf) and led them, as says, "And the Lord went before them by day. "And then when the Israelites were