On the Status of Mount Sinai and the First Part of the Trilogy

Rabbi Shalom, thank you for publishing the trilogy – as usual, I was very enlightened and enjoyed the “thin???” version of Judaism.
On your website, you more or less oppose the importance of studying the Bible, and because there is no information derived from it, but rather you usually draw the desired conclusion, I assume that’s why you don’t bother studying it much.
I was very surprised to see that you base your belief in Mount Sinai on the biblical text. I am referring mainly to p. 499 in the book: “Descriptions of the Exodus and the status of Mount Sinai recur in many places in the Bible.” For the answer, you are simply wrong. While the Exodus is indeed mentioned about a hundred times in the Bible, the status of Mount Sinai is almost never mentioned in the Bible (a search in the Responsa Yochiv project will prove it – 5 places for the answer). Although in most places where the Exodus is mentioned as a source of religious obligation – do X because you were taken out of Egypt – it can always be argued that it was important to mention the moral aspect of slavery and not the obligation in the covenant, but nevertheless, such statistical significance speaks volumes. It is quite clear for the answer that the status of Mount Sinai is a later addition.
How can one prove that something is a later addition? By referring to places where we would expect that if the status of Mount Sinai were known, we would expect it to be mentioned. The places where it is proven that the status of Mount Sinai was unknown to the writer are: (Arranged according to the clarity of the proof – I will provide the sources themselves at the end)

1. Joshua 24
2. Psalms 88,
3. Psalms 11
4. Jeremiah Lev,
5. Amos B,
6. Things,
7. Deuteronomy 29.

In all these places there is: a historical overview of the Exodus from Egypt until the entry into the Land and a discussion of the obligation of the people of Israel to worship God without mentioning the situation at Mount Sinai.
There are three places in the NAC where it is proven that they recognize the status of Mount Sinai: in Nehemiah, which is a later source from the Second Temple period (as you cited in your book). From the story of Elijah on Mount Harb – 1 Kings 19 (the earliest source that is similar to the status of Mount Sinai – noise, etc., but does not explicitly mention the giving of the Torah and revelation to the entire nation) and from Psalms 68 – time unknown (David?) – quoting the Song of Deborah.
Regarding the places you mentioned:
The source is the book of Ezekiel – contrary to what you say – Ezekiel does not refer to the giving of the Torah at Sinai, but rather to the laws that were spoken in the Tent of Meeting – the clear parallel in his words is to the book of Leviticus 18:
(d) Ye shall do my judgments, and keep my statutes, to walk in them: I will wait for your God: (e) And ye shall keep my statutes, and my judgments, which a man shall do, and live in them: I will wait for them: and not for the standing of Mount Sinai.
The Song of Deborah – contrary to what you say – there is no mention of the giving of the Torah. The event at Sinai is taken as another event that happened in Sheir and is not mentioned in our Bible (the event in Sheir is also mentioned in the Song of Moses in the same context – God came from Sinai and shone from Sheir to Modi – it is quite clear that two Torah readings are not mentioned).
Therefore, it is incorrect for the Jewish people to base the Jewish religion on the giving of the Torah at Sinai. Moreover, from the Torah itself we see that the covenant and the Jewish religion began and existed even before the giving of the Torah at Sinai, and that even after the giving of the Torah there were other covenants (the Plains of Moab, Joshua, Judges, Hezekiah and Josiah) and giving of the Torah (a large part of the commandments were commanded in the Tabernacle of the Covenant and in the Plains of Moab).
In general, the reader of the Book of Samuel, for example, will see that they were not familiar with Torah law at all, and even their words were based on principles that are explicitly stated in the Torah, such as the prohibition of having a husband’s wife (Bathsheba, Michal, and Avshalom), the separation of the priesthood (David ate the consecrated bread, the Ark was brought to Jerusalem without a priest), you shall not make a statue in the house of David, and even classic incest (Tamar when she said that her father would let her marry her brother). And even the killing of children by a father following a vow (Shaul, like Jephthah, wanted to kill his son), and grasping the horns of the altar, etc.
And one last and somewhat impudent comment related to the beginning of my remarks and apologies – I don’t think you did the expected homework on this subject. If you had opened the entry for Sinai – Giving the Torah – in the Biblical Inch, you would have seen that the most famous thing is that Mount Sinai is absent from the historical overviews throughout the Bible and is therefore considered a later addition. Even if you disagree with my remarks – I would have expected to see a more detailed reference in the book to this subject.
 
Deuteronomy Chapter 11, 2-8
(b) And you know this day that it is not your children who have not known and who have not seen the law of Jacob your God, his greatness, his outstretched arm, and his outstretched arm: (c) And his signs, and his deeds, which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land: (d) And what he did to the army of Egypt, to his horses, and to his chariots. Who brought the waters of the sea in a storm upon their faces, pursuing them after them, and destroying them, as it is this day: (5) And what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place: (6) And what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the son of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and their tents, and all the substance that was in them. At their feet all Israel is near: (7) For your eyes have seen all the work of Jacob, the greatness which he has done: (
Deuteronomy Chapter 29, 1-8
(a) And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that Jacob did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land: (b) The great multitudes which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and the great wonders: (c) And Jacob hath not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears to hear. To this day: (4) And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your garments have not waxed old upon you, and your shoe hath not waxed old upon your foot: (5) Ye have eaten no bread, and ye have drunk no wine nor strong drink: that ye may know that I am your God: (6) And ye came unto this place, and Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against you. Call us to battle and we will fight: (7) And we will take their land and give it as a possession to Reuben and to Gad and to the half-tribe of Manasseh: (8) And you shall keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do:
 
Joshua Chapter 24, 1-20
(a) And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God: (b) And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the river from of old, in the land of Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, and they served God. Others: (3) And I will take your father Abraham from beyond the flood, and will lead him throughout all the land of Canaan, and will watch over his seed, and will give him Isaac: (4) And I will give unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I will give unto Esau mount Seir for a possession: and Jacob and his children shall go down out of Egypt: (5) And I will send Moses and Aaron, and I will Egypt, as I did in the past, and afterward I brought you out: (6) And I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and the sea came, and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen, even the sea was very deep: (7) And they cried unto Jacob, and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and he brought the sea upon it, and covered it, and your eyes saw what was I will make you dwell in the wilderness many days: (8) And I will come and bring you into the land of the Amorites, which dwell on the other side Jordan: and they shall fight with you, and I will give them into your hand, and ye shall possess their land, and I will destroy them from before you: (9) And Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose, and fought against Israel: and he sent and called Balaam the son of Beor, that he should curse you: (10) And I would not hearken unto Balaam, and he blessed you, and sent you away by his hand: (11) And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Kenites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, fought against you before Jericho: and I will deliver them into your hand: (12) And I will send the plague before you. And I will drive out from before you the two kings of the Amorites, not with your sword, nor with your bow: (13) And I will give you a land that you did not touch, and cities that you did not build, and you shall live in them, and you shall eat of vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant: (14) And now let them fear Jacob, and serve him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods that they had served. Your fathers were beyond the River and in Egypt and served Jacob: (15) And if it seems evil to you to serve Jacob, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve: whether the Gods which your fathers served who were beyond the River in the past, or the Gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Jacob: (16) And the people answered and said, Let us leave Jacob and serve other gods: (17) For it is the LORD our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way that we went, and among all the peoples through whom we passed: (18) And Jacob cast out Jacob and All the peoples and the Amorites who live in the land will be driven out from before us, and we will serve the LORD our God, for he is our God. (19) And Joshua said to the people, “You will not be able to serve the LORD, for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not bear your transgressions or your sins.” (20) Because you have forsaken the LORD and served strange gods, and have turned back and done evil. For you and all those who follow you, that which is good for you:
 
Jeremiah Chapter 23, 19-24
19) Great is the counsel and the multitude of the wonders, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to give to every man according to his ways, and the reward of his doings: (20) Who set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt unto this day, and in Israel, and in Adam, and made thee a name, as at this day: (21) And broughtest forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs. And in Mophatim, and in Bid Hazaec, and in Ezroa Netoia, and in Morah Gadol: (22) And thou gavest them this land, which thou swarest unto their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey: (23) And they came and possessed it, and obeyed not thy voice, nor thy statutes, nor thy law, neither walked they in all that thou commandedst them to do, they did not do it, and thou calledst them by all This evil:
 
Amos Chapter 2, 9-13
(9) And I will destroy the Amorites before them, whose height was like the cedars, and whose strength was like the oaks, and I will destroy their fruit from above, and their roots from below: (10) And I will bring you up out of the land of Egypt, and will lead you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorites: (11) And I will raise up of your sons for prophets, and of your chosen ones for prophets. For the Nazirites, the children of Israel have no such thing, says Jacob: (12) And you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, You shall not prophesy:
 
Psalms Chapter 8, 11-6
(11) And they forgot his works and his wonders which he had done: (12) He did wonders against their fathers in the land of Egypt, a pasture for sheep: (13) He divided the sea, and made them pass through, and made the waters stand as a pillar: (14) And he comforted them by day with a cloud, and all the night with the light of fire: (15) He opened the holes in the wilderness, and gave drink as the multitude of the earth: (16) And brought forth waters out of the rock, and brought down rivers. Water: (17) And they sinned yet more against the commandments of the Lord in the wilderness: (18) And they sought God in their hearts to ask for food for their souls: (19) And they spake unto God, saying, Shall God be able to send a messenger in the wilderness? (20) Behold, he hath struck a rock, and water hath poured out, and the sick shall wash themselves; and shall eat bread, and shall prepare a present for his people: (21) Therefore he heard, and was afraid, and passed over. And a fire was kindled in Jacob, and a fire also rose up in Israel: (22) Because they believed not in God, neither trusted in his salvation: (23) And he commanded ravens from above, and opened the windows of heaven: (24) And he rained down manna upon them to eat, and gave them of the fish of heaven: (25) He ate the bread of the mighty; he sent a man to them to the full: (26) He rode on the horses in the heavens, and ruled by his strength. Teman: (27) And it rained upon them as dust, and as the seas that fly on wings: (28) And it fell near his camp round about his dwellings: (29) And they did eat, and were filled to the brim, and their desire came unto them: (30) They did not sow their desire, nor did they put food into their mouths: (no) And God was angry with them, and slew them in their fatness, and smote the fat of Israel: (31) In all this they sinned. Yet we did not believe in his wonders: (33) And he consumed their days in confusion, and their years in terror: (33) If they slew them, and sought him, and returned, and worshipped God: (33) And they remembered that God was a curse, and God was a redeemer: (33) And they deceived him with their mouth, and with their tongue they lied to him: (33) And their heart was not right with him, and they believed not in his covenant: (33) And he is merciful, forgiving iniquity, and not He has destroyed and multiplied his anger, and he will not turn away all his wrath: (LT) And he remembered that in flesh he is a spirit that goes and does not return: (M) How much they provoked him in the wilderness, they grieved him in the land: (MA) And they returned and fled to God, and to the Holy One of Israel they smote: (MB) They did not remember his hand in the day that he redeemed them from me, O king: (MG) Who had set his signs and wonders in Egypt In the field of sheep: (Med) And he will turn their lamps into blood, and their drink into drink: (Ma) He will send among them the raven, and it will devour them, and the sparrow, and it will destroy them: (Mo) And he will give their grain to the destroyer, and they will be devoured by the locust: (Mez) He will kill their vines with hail, and their sycomores with blight: (Mah) And he will close their cities to hail, and their stores to the scoundrels: (Matt) He will send among them the wrath of the Lord. Evil and wrath and affliction are sent by evil angels: (n) If a path is made straight for him, it will not be dark from the death of their soul, and their life will be according to the word of the Lord: (na) And all the firstborn in Egypt went forth, the firstborn of the afflicted, in the tents of Ham: (nb) And he led his people like a flock, and led them like a flock in the wilderness: (ng) And he comforted them in safety, and they feared not, and the sea covered their enemies: (nb) And he brought them to The border of his holiness is this mountain, which he hath chosen at his right hand: (5) And he cast out nations before them, and cast them down with a line of inheritance, and the tribes of Israel dwelt in their tents: (5) And they fled, and said, God is high, and kept not his testimonies: (5) And they turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned aside like a deceitful bow: (5) And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and with their graven images they bought: (5) God heard, and was moved, and greatly troubled in Israel: (6) And he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, and dwelt in the tent of man:
 
Psalms Chapter 11, 17-18
(37) And he brought them out with silver and gold, and there was none lacking in his tribes: (38) The Egyptians rejoiced when they went out, because the fear of them had fallen upon them: (39) He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire for a light by night: (40) He asked, and it came to pass, and with the bread of heaven he satisfied them: (50) He opened the windows, and they flowed out; they walked in the rivers of waters: (41) For he remembered the word of his holiness to Abraham his servant: (43) And he brought forth his people in the wilderness of Barna, his chosen ones: (Meaning) and gave them the lands of the Gentiles, and the labor of the nations they shall inherit: (What) in the past they shall keep his statutes, and his commandments they shall keep, if it be so: