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020: The Mountain

020: The Mountain

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Ahead of them lies a mountain that smokes. This episode tells the arrival at Sinai: three days of preparation, then thunder, lightning, a thick cloud and a long tone that grows louder. And into that awe come ten sentences. Not numbered, in Hebrew „the ten words“, and the first is not a command at all but a memory: „I am the Lord, who brought you out of the house of slavery.“ The exodus becomes a covenant, stories become law. The research on awe shows what happens in such moments: the self grows smaller, the space beside it larger, and out of many individuals a we is formed. And an old thread is tied off. „You shall not murder“ points back to Cain, whose private deed at the field went unanswered. On the mountain it becomes a sentence for everyone. Freedom, the sober point, needs form, or it will not last.

What we take with us: Freedom needs form. Becoming free is an event, staying free is the work of agreeing on a few sentences that still hold once the rush is over.

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