100. "When Pharaoh shall speak to you" (Shemot 7:9). Rabbi Yehuda opened the discussion saying, "How I love Your Torah! It is my meditation all the day" (Tehilim 119:97) and it is written, "At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You because of Your righteous laws" (Ibid. 62). Come and see, David is the King of Yisrael and he has to judge the people, to lead Yisrael as a shepherd leads his sheep, so that they will not turn off the way of truth. And at night it is written, "At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You because of Your righteous laws." And he occupied himself with the Torah and praised the Holy One, blessed be He, until morning came.