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A Hakhel Society

From the very outset, the people of Israel knew something unprecedented had happened at Sinai. The authenticity of a revelation supposedly experienced by one person (as in Christianity and Islam) could be questioned. One witnessed by an entire nation, young and old, saint and sinner, could not.
But more than a new religion was born that day; a unique type of nation was being formed, one that would be the antithesis of Egypt in which the few had power and the many were enslaved. At Sinai, the children of Israel ceased to be a group of individuals and became a body politic under the sovereignty of G-d whose mission was to be, “A holy nation.”
Three developments proved crucial in…

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