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Question about the status of Mount Sinai

שו"תQuestion about the status of Mount Sinai
שאל לפני 6 שנים

*** This is a question I asked the Rabbi via email (and he answered, to be honest) and I am sending it here because I want to continue asking the Rabbi after the answer he gave me and he asked me to send a question via the website and not via email. I will write the follow-up question I have following his answer in a response (tomorrow).

peace.
I read the introduction to the book, and the fifth conversation in your book "The First Presence" following a question I had that I think has not yet been answered.
We know that in Egypt there were sorcerers and magicians of various kinds, possibly even those with superpowers, even according to some Jewish sages this was the case.
My question is this: Even if we say that all the history that was there happened, including the miracles and the status of Mount Sinai, that still doesn't mean it's real. I mean, it could be that Moses was simply a magician who outdid everyone there.
Just as there were sorcerers in Egypt, so too was Moses, only he was simply better and wiser than them at it.
Now, if this is true, we really have no way of knowing whether there was truly a revelation or whether it was just the fruit of Moses' actions. Even those standing on Mount Sinai have no way of knowing this, because if he is such a good sorcerer, then he can actually create a spell that looks like a divine revelation and that will convince them 100 percent. Even if they knew the spells that were in Egypt, it doesn't matter, if someone comes here with a new and powerful system of spells to the point of creating a revelation, it doesn't mean it's real, it could always be a spell, after all, there are already forces in reality that can break nature, as has already been proven in Egypt.
In fact, according to this, everything given to us at Mount Sinai is meaningless and unreal, or at the very least we can never know that it is real and not some sorcery of Moses.
There is some evidence for this:
1. First of all, as I said, it is very possible that there were supernatural sorcery powers in Egypt and Moses learned from them and was simply the best there. (And if you say, why wasn't it repeated, it is possible that at that time it wasn't repeated and later this knowledge was lost).
2. Moses tells the people of Israel beforehand that God wants to give them Torah, and it is only because of their refusal that the event at Mount Sinai occurs (as the ancients write about the verses before the event at Mount Sinai). This is quite suspicious. If there really was a God here who wanted to give Torah, He would have revealed Himself to the people of Israel and not waited for them to refuse Moses' words in order to reveal Himself. On the contrary, this only strengthens the fear that this was a spell by Moses after he saw that they were not convinced by everything that had happened up until now and that something serious was needed.
3. In your book, in the fifth conversation, you wrote about the parable of the blind and the wise. This is not about a blind and a wise man, but about a people who supposedly once in history became wise and then returned to their blindness. How can they know afterwards that their wisdom is real? On the contrary, it seems more logical to stick to what I have seen so far and not to some one-time revelation that I am not sure if it is real or not, as above.
4. If the event at Mount Sinai was truly real, why did it only happen in the days of Moses, who grew and flourished in the days when there were sorcerers with such and such powers? Ostensibly, we would expect God to reveal himself in a national and historical form in other times as well to eliminate this doubt, which did not happen.

Someone once pointed out to me that one could equally well ask: "Maybe God has revealed himself and is lying?" I don't think that's the same question, because if God really chose to reveal himself, then that's his will and if he's lying, that's his problem. But if a person decides to cast a spell on me and work on me, then it has nothing to do with whether or not there is a God who reveals himself at Mount Sinai and demands things of us.

I would appreciate your response,
Good day


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מיכי צוות ענה לפני 6 שנים
To be precise, the revelation comes against the backdrop of a whole range of additional considerations. I explained this in the first book of the trilogy. By way of example, it is always possible that there was someone with special powers, and then I would ask who created him (the physico-theological evidence). And if he is his own cause, then it is God himself. Conspiracy theories can always exist, but whoever experiences something has the first right to interpret what he experienced. The burden of proof is on the one who claims that his interpretation is incorrect. I didn't understand question 3, which attacks this point itself. There are people who have experienced a revelation and those who haven't experienced it cannot understand. The argument about the blind man who regained his sight and vice versa is not clear to me.
Questions 2 and 4 should be addressed to God Almighty. I am not concerned with His considerations of when and how to reveal Himself.

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