What Happened at Sinai - #2 - What Did the People Hear?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Hillel Shaps’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

welcome back thanks so much for joining us again this is week number two of what happened at sinai if you missed it last week then you missed part of what happened at singhai but you'll find out other things tonight so still worth it to be here i hope um so just briefly we went through last week just the basic outline of the series of events the people come to them to the events the people come to them to the mountain they see thunder or see hear thunder lightning will actually go into that at some point not tonight really but they see fire god speaks to them um they're frightened they ask moshe they ask moses to intervene they don't they don't want to hear god speak anymore it's too much and then god says okay then god says i hear the request and he tells moshe i'll take you know you can you can be i'll take you know you can you can be the transmitter from here out last week we basically besides we're giving an outline we outlined what the ten commandments are and were we also gogging to the question at the end the more fundamental point that we touched on was why was it so essential that the jewish people have an experience of prophecy why was that necessary you know they had after all they'd seen all of god's great miracles moses successfully brought all these miracles about

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1. 0:03welcome back thanks so much for joining us again this is week number two of what…
2. 5:40yet still a great prophetic experience of of communicating with god so let's take a look…
3. 12:21the approach of what we call the simple reading very simple what is it saying without…
4. 18:25numosa 611 were commanded to us by moshe explains the talmud the word torah in terms…
5. 24:33they they received the prophecy of the first two commandments on a level equal to the…
6. 30:38so then after those the rest of them they hear god speak they don't understand it…
7. 36:49that even if one has the capacity for prophecy and as do he prepared himself it…
8. 42:56before where it sounds like moshe is mediating moshe heard the word of god not the…
9. 49:07prophecy so the first two he says those are those are scientific those are those are…
10. 55:14that means that that that it's now with within the the the system that god creates…

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