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Why was the Yam on the south?

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'Rashi': It is not honorable that people immerse in the middle (between north and south), opposite Pesach ha'Ulam. 1

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It seems that it could have been in the north, just he needed to pick a direction. (PF)

Sefer: Perek: Pasuk:

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