Before the Eyes of All the People We Are

Mekhilta Tractate Bachodesh 3:9

Curated by Arthur·Told by Maggid·March 24, 2026

Variantly: "before the eyes of all the people": We are hereby apprised that they saw at that time what Ezekiel and Isaiah could not see, it being written (Hoshea 12:11) "and by the prophets I shall be imaged," (but at Sinai they saw the Shechinah.)

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