Q&A: I Became Religious
I Became Religious
Question
Hello, I used to be hardcore secular, an atheist. I started a process of repentance in the army, and entered a holy yeshiva.
None of the above is really relevant; I just felt like sharing.
Once I heard that the Torah promises that there will never again be anything like the revelation at Mount Sinai. Just a technical question, but in the verses I found it says only that there had never been anything like it before: "Ask now of the former days…" So where does it say there is a promise that there also will not be another event like this? Just a technical question that interested me.
Thank you.
Answer
First, the Torah does not make a promise here; rather, it describes an existing state of affairs. And indeed it describes the situation as of that time, and there is no logical necessity that this must remain the case later on. But it is reasonable that it is also addressing future generations, who could ask the people of their own time. Still, that is not necessary. Moreover, the wording of the verses does not necessarily imply that there was never such an event, but rather that if there had been such an event, those who experienced it did not remain alive afterward. The Torah emphasizes that the uniqueness was not in the revelation itself, but in the fact that we remained alive: "Has any people heard God… and lived?"