The German king Frederick the Great once asked the Marquis Charles De Bois “Can you offer me proof of G‑d’s existence?” Without hesitating the marquis replied “The Jews your Majesty.” Why can’t a young person schooled in our chareidi system feel the same certainty as the Marquis De Bois when he answered King Frederick?
We continue our discussion of how each of us as Jews living in the twenty-first century are living proof of the Torah’s Divine origin — as we compare our logic-defying fate to that of other nations in the course of history. And the greatest marvel of all is that the Torah spoke clearly of this unique supernatural survival thousands of years ago when no human being could have foreseen it. History simply had to bend before the force of those verses and fulfill their words against all reason. An open mind and a sensitive heart will perceive that the Torah is indeed Divine and accept all that this implies for him in his own life.
Let’s begin with a pasuk from Parshas V’eschanan in which Moshe Rabbeinu recounts to the Jewish Nation their experience at Har Sinai: “For ask now regarding the early days that preceded you since the day that G‑d created man upon the earth and from one end of the heavens to the other end of the heavens was there anything like this great thing or was anything like it heard of? Did ever a people hear G‑d’s voice speaking out of the fire as you heard and live?” (Devarim 4:32–33)
I assume that all my readers are familiar with this verse. The important thing now is the truth that it reflects the message it bears for all generations. The pasuk lays down the proposition that the Revelation at Mount Sinai was an event unparalleled by anything else in all of history from one end of the heavens to the other.
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