This week's portion contains what may be the greatest miracle in the entire Torah—though it's one that people rarely think of as miraculous, or would put into the same category as the splitting of the sea (Exodus 14), the manna (Exodus 16), or the quail (Exodus 16 and again in Numbers 11). Each of these has been given naturalistic explanations by those who prefer to keep talk of miracles at a distance. But at the beginning of this week's reading, Moses assembles the Israelites and addresses all of them at once: an event that could not have happened without miraculous intervention.
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