This week we begin the fourth book of the Torah, Sefer Bamidbar, which means "in the wilderness." While reading Sefer Bamidbar we learn about B'nai Yisrael's travels on the way to Canaan. One of the most important events during this time was the giving of the Torah on Mt. Sinai. It is interesting to note that God chose to give the Torah in the wilderness.
Why do you think that God didn't bring the people into Canaan and tell them the rules there? Why didn't He choose another setting such as a forest or beside the ocean? What made the Sinai Desert the perfect environment for God's revelation?
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since nothing goes on in the desert, therefore the Torah cannot be shaped for one environment. If it was given in a particular city then we would think that the city owns it, and that we would have to be like that specific city. By giving the Torah in the desert Hashem shows us that the Torah fits every environment even an empty one like a desert.
ReplyDelete6B @ GHA- Because in Canaan there were people who were idolatrous, and everywhere there was sin to corrupt the Torah, but in the desert there was nothing to corrupt the Torah.
ReplyDeleteAlso by giving it in the desert we show that every environment even a desert can receive the values of the Torah.
6A- We learn that giving the Torah in the desert would make it universal. The Torah would not be shaped by the desert being that there is nothing there. If given in a city it would make the Torah like that city.
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