[Avodah] RAK's "The Eleventh Plague"

[Michael Poppers]

(My apologies for being approx. a week late in typing in this thought :) 
-- the delay may translate into my missing some important aspects, but I 
need to put fingers to keyboard and get it out ahead of Shabbos!)

Re http://www.aish.com/torahportion/moray/The_Eleventh_Plague.asp :
RAK notes a transformation, via the waters of Marah, which was a necessary 
prerequisite for the required unity that is indicated by "a dramatic shift 
from the plural to the singular" in the "vayichan sham Yisrael" verse.  He 
may have meant to point this out, but as it apparently wasn't explicit, 
allow me to note that such a shift also occurs in the waters-of-Marah 
parashah, as can be seen in the "sham sam lo" verse (NB that RaShY refers 
"lo" to b'nei Yisrael, not MRAH!).

A guten Shabbes/Shabbas Shalom and all the best from
Michael Poppers * Elizabeth, NJ, USA
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