THE TORAH SAYS towards the end of last week’s parsha that Moshe told the Jewish people “all the words of God and all the judgments,” (Shemos 24:3). The Jewish people answered back in unison, “All that God has said we will do!”
THE GEMORA SAYS, “From where is it derived that three who sit in judgment, the Divine Presence is with them?
THIS WEEK’S PARSHA is climactic for an obvious reason, and a less obvious reason. The giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai is one of the most important events of all of history, greatly altering the direction of mankind.
THE VERSE SAYS, “It happened at the end of 430 years…that all the legions of God went out of the land of Egypt” (Shemos 12:40), which is interesting because God only spoke to Avraham about 400 years during the Bris Ben HaBesarim.
THE ARMENIANS TRIED to get the same kind of attention for the genocide they suffered during World War I at the hands of the Turks, as the Jews did after the Holocaust. But most people who saw the signs hanging around the Armenian Quarter in the Old City recalling it probably just moved on, barely wondering what they were talking about, or who the Armenians are.
