How will we reconcile the current Pasuk - "Va'Yeired Hashem Al Har Sinai" with the Pasuk in 20:19, "Ki Min ha'Shamayim Dibarti Imachem"?
Rashi #1: Hashem bent the upper and lower Heavens and spread them on Har Sinai like a sheet, on to which He then lowered the Kisei ha'Kavod.
Rashi #2 (to 20:19): His Kavod remained in the Heaven, but His Fire and His Might descended to the earth. 1
Rashi: Based on Devarim 4:36.
Bearing in mind the Pasuk, "ha'Shamayim Shamayim La'Shem" (Tehilim 115:16), what does the Torah mean when it writes "va'Yered Hashem Al Har Sinai"?
R. Bachye: "Vayeired Hashem? implies that Hashem ?lowered Himself?, to reveal Himself to hunan-beings 1 ? in this case to the whole of Yisrael, who saw Him in the form of a consuming fire. 2
Succah 5a: Hashem only came down to a point that is above ten Tefachim (of the point where the Heaven begins). 3
R. Bachye: Similar to ?Vayeira eilav Hashem? in connection with AVraham in Bereishis 18:1.
As Moshe staeted in Pasuk 11 ? ? ki ba?Yom ha?Shelishi Yeired Hashem le?Einei Kol ha?Am. See R. Bachye who elaborates.
See Torah Temimah in Pasuk #3, note 8.
If Hashem chose the lowly Har Sinai to teach us humility, why did He call Moshe to the top of the mountain?
