<br><font size=3 color=#000080 face="Verdana">(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!)</font>
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<br><font size=3 color=#000080 face="Verdana">Re </font><a href=http://www.aish.com/torahportion/moray/The_Eleventh_Plague.asp><font size=2 color=#800000 face="Verdana">http://www.aish.com/torahportion/moray/The_Eleventh_Plague.asp</font><font size=3 color=#000080 face="Verdana">
:</font></a>
<br><font size=3 color=#000080 face="Verdana">RAK notes a transformation,
via the waters of Marah, which was a necessary prerequisite for the required
unity that is indicated by "</font><font size=3>a dramatic shift from
the plural to the singular</font><font size=3 color=#000080 face="Verdana">"
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!).</font>
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<br><font size=3 color=#000080 face="Verdana">A guten Shabbes/Shabbas Shalom
and all the best from</font>
<br><font size=4 color=blue face="Monotype Corsiva">Michael Poppers</font><font size=4 color=blue face="Verdana">
</font><font size=3 face="Verdana">*</font><font size=4 color=blue face="Verdana">
</font><font size=4 color=blue face="EngraversGothic BT">Elizabeth, NJ,
USA</font>