This week’s parsha contains many mitzvos. One of these mitzvos is the mitzvah of appointing a king. As the Torah states: “when you will say I will appoint upon myself (singular tense) a king…you shall appoint upon yourself a king.” One might wonder why the Torah mentions this mitzvah in singular tense when appointing a king always involves the population at large. In fact, in the times of Shmuel Hanavi, when the Jews said that they wanted a king, the passuk says “…let us appoint upon ourselves (in plural tense!) a king.” (Shmuel 8:5)
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