MOSES ON Mount Sinai as depicted by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1895. (credit: Wikimedia Commons) We hear thunder and we see lightning, but we do not see thunder. Here the text reinforces the symbolism ...

So last week we read the magnificent story of Matan Torah (the giving of the Ten Commandments) at Mount Sinai. We were dazzled by the miraculous appearance of the Shechinah, with fire, lightning ...