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What Really Happened at Sinai

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Did three million people really hear God speak at Mount Sinai, or is this foundational Jewish narrative better understood through a different lens? The apparent conflict between modern rationalism and traditional accounts of divine revelation has challenged Jewish thinkers from Maimonides to Martin Buber and Mordechai Kaplan. Through philosophical examination of how rational and imaginative faculties interact in experiencing divine truth, this analysis challenges the presumed superiority of purely rational perception. Drawing upon Maimonidean concepts of prophecy and modern physics' insights into observer subjectivity, the research demonstrates how consciousness flows from God through both rational and imaginative channels. Prophecy emerges as the intersection of divine and human consciousness, manifesting through both intellectual understanding and sensory experience. Rather than dismissing the Sinai revelation as mythology or hallucination, the evidence suggests it reflects an authentic ancestral encounter with the divine - one that remains experientially verifiable through contemporary Jewish religious practice and observance. This historical event proves accessible through both critical reasoning and imaginative perception, bridging ancient experience with modern understanding.

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    Published 1995

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    Henry Balser