Mount Sinai in Culture
In Classical rabbinical literature, Mount Sinai became synonymous with holiness; as it was said that when the Messiah arrives, God will bring Sinai together with Mount Carmel and Mount Tabor, rebuild the Temple upon the combined mountain, and the peaks would sing a chorus of praise to God.
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