Pascal's Wager - The overwhelming concern of the parsha is kavod. So much so, that the Torah presents Yitro’s arrival out of chronological order to emphasize that the challenge of Sinai – i.e., whether Kabbalat HaTorah will be relevant as brit, or whether it will be ignored because no one can afford it – has to be addressed before we even get there. Yitro insists that brit must provide the means for an individual and the malchut to relate to the Melech HaKavod. The heaviness of brit and of existence itself was experienced more profoundly by the sound of His “Voice” than by understanding His words. There are two possible responses to “Anochi Hashem Elokecha” : (1) that we and Hashem live together and choose Life together, or (2) that we take Pascal’s Wager and lock out forever any meaning to life. Yitro teaches that there can be no Sinai of Truth – there can only be Sinai as a path to Freedom.

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