The National Testimony on Har Sinai

If a person has a belief, does it ever occur to that person where it comes from? Was it a tradition that was passed down from generation from generation? If there was the choice between a belief that was given via an individual revelation or a national revelation?

Over 3,333 years ago, more than 600,000 Israelite males witnessed Mattan Torah – the Giving of The Torah on Mount Sinai. These Israelite males passed down the tradition of Torah to their children who then passed it down to the next generation. This has continued all the way into our time. The basis of the Jewish theology is a national revelation that became a national transmission that claims this to be true.

If a belief/social system was based on the single testimony of an individual, then the ability to validate the argument for their belief system(s) can never be fully validated. A National Testimony of a belief/social system implies that an entire nation of people witnessed a series of events that pertain to the establishment of the fundamental precepts and decrees of the belief/social system.

The entire basis for the validity of the Torah is based on the concept of National Testimony. While many faiths are based on the testimony of a single person or a small group of people, the Jewish faith is based on a tradition that has and is still being passed down via the National Testimony of the exodus from Egypt and the giving of The Torah on Mount Sinai. The Torah has been vigorously passed down via the paternal lineages and the rabbinical lineages.

The Haggadah of Passover is part of the tradition of the National Testimony of the Splitting of The Sea which led to Mattan Torah – the giving of the Torah. It is improbable for this nation transmission to be false because hundreds of thousands of Jewish fathers have been transmitting the Torah from its inception to this day.

Every moment of time, since Mattan Torah, there have been Jews learning Torah. The spiritual nature of Torah is built on an unbroken chain of transmission. The claim for the Torah is stronger than that of any other belief/social system. By comparison, any other belief/social system is false and invalid. Why? Because there is no mass transmission of thought that was consistently preserved by the descendants of the nation that claimed to have had the aforementioned experience.

The traditions and precepts of The Torah are the same across continents. The majority of Jewish tradition is based on the relationship between the Written Torah and the Oral Torah – the tradition of understanding the Written Torah as it has been passed down from generation to generation. The consistency among most Jewish traditions is empirical proof that Judaism is indeed a valid religious tradition. This consistency has been noticed internationally among Jews from all over the world. For example, the Ashkenazi Jews and Teimani Jews are both equally valid transmissions from the same unbroken chain despite the fact that both of these ethnic groups were physically distant from each other for most of human history, but nevertheless, they managed to have preserved the same fundamental precepts and decrees of The Torah via the oral tradition to each generation of Jews including the National Testimony of the exodus from Egypt.

The Torah is a product of the national experience where the nation of Israel moved from Egypt to Israel which includes the events associated with Seder Shel Pesach (Passover) and Shavuoth – the holiday that celebrates Mattan Torah. All of this is part of the national transmission of information.

How can one collectively agree to tell the same lie? If that was the case, the truth would have been revealed because such a grand lie would have been exposed. The Nation of Israel couldn’t have been mistaken about the precepts of Torah and the Sages who preserved the details of the precepts, decrees, and concepts mentioned in the Torah. This not only includes the basic principles of Judaism but also theology of Judaism which includes the esoteric ideas that surround the nature of the theology. This is all from the National Transmission of Torah which comes from a National Revelation that all of the Nation of Israel witnessed at the same time.

There has been no other nation in the world that can attest to a national transmission. Many of them have stories that have to do with their people but do not have an event in which their nation has demonstrated that their essential beliefs are valid. You can not bring any example from another nation.

The argument for any other religion is based on manipulated ideologies that are often irrational and based on a subjective morality due to being based on a tradition that has no validity or authenticity to it Thus, for anyone to claim that another faith is authentic would have to ignore the basis of the highest level of accepted truth in the world.