The Torah had to be received by the whole Jewish nation. And it was. When the people arrived at Mount Sinai in preparation for accepting their mission, the verse changes the syntax, and uses a singular form instead of plural. "And he camped opposite the montain" Rashi, the great commentator, concisely describes the incongruity of the grammar: "Like one person with one heart." The entire Jewish nation could aptly be described in the singular because essentially they were so co