Parshat Behar-Bechukotai | Weekly Parsha

[0:00]Does it really matter where the Torah was given? This week's Torah portion, the Har Sinai, the Mount of Sinai talks about that the mitzvat were given on Mount Sinai. But why does geography matter? So, there's a famous medresh, Sinai was a small mountain. There were these great, taller, more majestic mountains, but Sinai teaches us that central to Torah, central to Judaism is humility. But then the question is, if that's the case, the Torah should have been given in a valley, and that would really be a lesson of humility. The Koka Reba says, yes, you have to be humble, but you can't be a schmutter, you can't be walked on. If the Torah had been given in a valley, we're no one, you have to be a mountain, a humble mountain.