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(Online audio) Lecture No. E_005 The
Three Dimensions of the The Four Audio Visual Images at Mount Sinai The Torah gives a four-image description of the experience of Israel at the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. The people saw:
The second and fourth images are visual. Paradoxically, the first and third images are actually audio images that at Sinai were perceived visually as well. This is because the experience reached such a deep point in the soul that the physical senses intermingled. The first three revelations are supernatural. They did not take hold in reality. The fourth image of the smoking mountain is physical. The fire took hold of the mountain and was seen in reality as smoke. These four images correspond to the four letters of God's Name:
The final image of smoke is the one that lingers longest in our mind and that should accompany us as we daily receive the Torah anew. What does smoke represent? The Three Dimensions
of "Smoke" --
Ashan
When we meditate on the image of the smoking
mountain, we should attempt to experience the merging of light, truth and
good, and unite the perceptions of sight and taste to merit to receive the
Torah anew every day.
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