- Q. I always wondered why in the most important reading of the Shema, that we repeat a number of times every day begins in a singular form, yet it ends in plural?
A. It could well be that the beginning of Shema Yisroel is addressing eternally each singular individual of all our nation, yet the last chapter is directed to our whole and complete nation together.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a