Exodus 12:29 Now it came about at midnight that the Hashem...
Rashi explains that the word used for midnight is 'K'chtzos", meaning at the dividing of the night - it is then that God appeared in the midst of Egypt.
Why is the infinitive form of the verb used here? Would it not be sufficient to say "in the middle of the night" and use the noun form?
However, what this teaches us is that Hashem can only be glimpsed at the point of division. As the night was dividing into two halves, a rent in the fabric or reality appeared, just for a moment..and Hashem could be glimpsed behind it. We must always be aware and on the lookout for such rents, such separations in the fabric of the ordinary, of the expected... and look through them to the Ultimate.
(an elaboration after the Gutnick Chumash comment ibid)
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