רבינו בחיי — ראה אנכי נתן לפניכם

Q — ראה אנכי נתן לפניכם — why the abrupt shift from singular ראה to plural לפניכם in the same six words?

A — Rabbeinu Bachya catches the number-mismatch and reads it as a deliberate split addressed simultaneously to two audiences. The singular ראה is for the yachidim — those few who can see with the inner eye, who grasp that bracha and klalah are not external administrative rewards but actually flow from the two cosmic middos through which the world was created (din and rachamim). For them, the verse is an invitation to contemplative vision. The plural לפניכם is for the rabim — the masses, who do not need to perceive the metaphysics, but do need the practical motivation of here is reward, here is punishment, choose. Moshe simultaneously speaks to the philosopher and to the crowd, with no need to choose between them, because the same single phrase carries both messages: each listener hears what he is calibrated to hear. RBB sees this same yachid/rabim coding elsewhere — ראה למדתי אתכם חקים — where ראה (sing.) goes with chukim (mysteries known only to yachidim) and אתכם (pl.) goes with mishpatim (given to the multitude).