Reply To: Classics and Beyond Va’eira — Separate but Equal:

Separate but not equal. The Maasei Hashem on the Hagadah (dovor achar) explains that Rebbi Yehudah gives us the simonim, detzach, adash, beachav to indicate that the makkos started away from Pharaoh then affecting his money and body to give him an opportunity to do teshuva.