Before, there was a hierarchy of truth. The high priest of Egypt had the real truth. The scribes had secrets of the truth. Their initiated students had inklings. The people wallowed in ignorance.
Moses, the revolutionary, changed all that. At Mount Sinai, all men, women and children, princes and commoners, priests and workers, had to be present. All received the same truth, all at once. Even the priestly rites were made public knowledge.
Before, power and authority was based on withholding knowledge. In a Torah world, authority is established through universal knowledge.
The veils of truth and the slip of our vestments When children are born they are born clothed in grace. Those who recieve a precious bundle cover & protect blessings, but what happens when something or someone intercepts? Lamps need to be lit, people need to be aware when something is wrong & speak up. Sometimes what we read printed isn't right or incorrect. If any time pass suddenly these written things become a fact over time? What corruption could be allowed to obscure our line of sight? We ourselves; focused on something else, were more distracted to gaze upon something other than a 'conscious minute'.
Could we be looking at something properly or could we possibly be wrong? We ask ourselves: How could this be error, it has always displayed itself like this and we have never seen anything other than this. Maybe a child or some elderly could step up saying: I remember what happened but nobody listens to me. All of them were wrong & many hands did the rest. Is this you out there?
There's my version, your version & His version