Revealing Revelation

(1) Return, return, O Shulammite; Return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulammite? As it were a dance of two companies.

(3) And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying: ‘Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: (4) Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’wings, and brought you unto Myself. (5) Now therefore, if ye will hearken unto My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be Mine own treasure from among all peoples; for all the earth is Mine; (6) and ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.’ (7) And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the LORD commanded him. (8) And all the people answered together, and said: ‘All that the LORD hath spoken we will do.’ And Moses reported the words of the people unto the LORD. (9) And the LORD said unto Moses: ‘Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and may also believe thee for ever.’ And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD. (10) And the LORD said unto Moses: ‘Go unto the people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their garments, (11) and be ready against the third day; for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

(35) Unto thee it was shown, that thou mightiest know that the LORD, He is God; there is none else beside Him.

(1) The foundation of foundations and pillar of wisdoms is to know that there is a Primary Cause and He causes to exist all that exists. And everything that exists from Heaven to Earth and everything in between would not exist except from the truth of His existence.

(12) And the LORD spoke unto you out of the midst of the fire; ye heard the voice of words, but ye saw no form; only a voice. (13) And He declared unto you His covenant, which He commanded you to perform, even the ten words; and He wrote them upon two tables of stone. (14) And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.

(1) And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and observe to do them. (2) The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. (3) The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. (4) The LORD spoke with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire— (5) I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare unto you the word of the LORD; for ye were afraid because of the fire, and went not up into the mount—saying: .

(1) Moses, our teacher, was not believed in by the Jews because of the signs he performed. For one who believes [in anything] because of signs has a defect in his heart since it is possible that a sign was done through trickery and magic. Rather, all the signs that Moses did in the desert were done out of necessity, not to prove of his prophecy. It was necessary to drown the Egyptians, so he split the sea, and he made them sink in it. We needed to be fed, so the manna was brought down [from the sky] for us. They [the rebels] were thirsty so he split the stone for them [and water came forth] for them. The congregation of Korach denied [Moses' authority] so the earth swallowed them. And so too by all the other signs.

So why do we believe in him? At Mt. Sinai, that which our eyes saw and not a stranger's, that which our ears heard and not another's, was the fire, the thunder, the lightning, and then [Moses] approached the fog and the voice [of God] spoke to him and we heard "Moses, Moses, go and say to them such and such." And so he said, (Deuteronomy 5:4) "Face to face did God speak with you." And so it says (Deuteronomy 5:3), "God did not make this covenant with our fathers."From where [do we know] that Mt. Sinai alone is proof to [Moses'] prophecy that has no defect? For it says (Exodus 19:9), "Behold, I am coming to you in the thick cloud in order that the nation will hear when I speak to you and also that they will believe in you forever." This implies that before this [event, the Jewish people] did not have a belief in [Moses] that would last forever, rather it was a belief that was speculation and apprehension.

(32) For ask now of the days past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? (33) Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?