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Adam receives commandments in a garden, Abraham becomes myrrh through fire, pillars of cloud guide the wilderness, and the Mishkan gifts complete the courtship.
Officials wound the ones rebuilding Jerusalem, Esau tries to bite Jacob's neck, angels kiss the patriarchs at Sinai, and love becomes stronger than death.
Hananya, Mishael, and Azarya walk into Nebuchadnezzar's furnace carrying a covenant sealed in blood at Sinai centuries before their birth.
Solomon fasts forty days until wisdom descends, while at Sinai a broken covenant sends the divine writing lifting off the stone and back to heaven.
Moses came down Sinai with more than tablets. He also received names too dangerous for Israel and passed them upward to an angel instead.
Before Sinai could happen, God had to contract. The contraction revealed something broken in the balance between masculine and feminine in the upper worlds.
Moses spent forty days on Sinai. The Torah he wrote was only part of what he received. The rest was a light that cannot be carried in letters.
A Yemeni scholar received an argument that divine agents deserve worship. His response used the sun, the moon, fire, and Sinai to show why the logic collapsed.
Before the thunder at Sinai, the Zohar imagines Torah already promised to Israel as a bride is promised, through threads and crowns and an ancient bond.
