💡 Think:
In describing the giving of the Torah on Sinai, the Torah writes1 that G-d spoke in “a great voice that did not cease.”
The Sages in the Midrash2 offer three explanations of the unceasing voice:
1. The voice was not limited to Hebrew. Rather it spoke the languages of all seventy foundational nations.
2. The voice did not cease at that time, rather it is continuous - containing within it all the future teachings of the sages and speaking to us now, this very day.
3. The voice did not have an echo.
Of these three reasons, the third seems the most perplexing. After all, shouldn’t the Creator of all speak with a little reverb? One would expect the giving of the Torah to have all the bass, the Dolby Digital Surround Sound that you’d expect from the Master of the Universe.
The reason is because when the Torah was given, it was not meant to stand in contradiction to Creation, but rather to permeate the very foundation of reality. An echo shows that the sound waves bounced off everything - but the Torah was absorbed and became one with all…
And that is a message that remains with us today!
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