Touch: Beyond the Mountain’s Edge
| Shavuot
By :
Jan Uhrbach Acting Dean of the Rabbinical and Cantorial Schools
Posted On Jun 6, 2016 / 5776 | Sound Bytes | Holidays
On Shavuot, we read that the Torah was given with thunder, lightning, smoke, shaking ground, and a shofar blast. How do we experience the Torah with all our senses today?
Exodus 19:12
You shall set bounds for the people round about, saying, ‘Beware of going up the mountain or touching the border of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall be put to death. . . ‘
שמות יט:יב
וְהִגְבַּלְתָּ אֶת-הָעָם סָבִיב לֵאמֹר, הִשָּׁמְרוּ לָכֶם עֲלוֹת בָּהָר וּנְגֹעַ בְּקָצֵהוּ: כָּל-הַנֹּגֵעַ בָּהָר, מוֹת יוּמָת.
