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Have you ever wondered what standing at Mount Sinai felt like? Tradition teaches that all the souls of the Jewish people, past, present and future stood together and heard the voice of God. So what did we actually experience?
The Torah states:
“And all the people saw the voices and the torches, the sound of the shofar, and the smoking mountain, and the people saw and trembled; so they stood from afar.”
The Zohar picks up on this statement:
” Surely the Torah should have said that the people heard the voices. However, we learn that these voices were engraved in the darkness, the cloud, and the fog, and appeared within them. The voices appeared in form just as an actual body appears. It was from this vision that we saw that we were illuminated with the highest illumination and we knew what no other subsequent generation knew.”
When we received God’s voice, face to face, at Mount Sinai it changed us and the world forever.
This podcast is dedicated for a refuah shelemah , a perfect healing for Virginia Veracruz, the daughter of Mary Salas, and also in loving memory of Feiga bat Shmuel and Rivka and for an ilui nishamatah, the elevation of her soul.
The material for this podcast is translated from the Zohar Perush haSulam ma’amar, vkol ha’am roim hakolot.
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Hi Yedida.
I was an acquaintance/friend of Liebe Schulman’s.
In the context of your ‘Matan Torah’ talk, I thought you might find the visuals from this You Tube video inspiring. It’s not a Jewish perspective, but it doesn’t change the truth of the geology and archeology.
Enjoy…