Addressed at Sinai

As soon as a Jewish baby is born, what G-d declared at Sinai applies to him. All souls of all generations, this baby’s soul included, were present at Sinai when G-d addressed them – in the first person: “I am the Lord thy G-d, Who brought you out from the Land of Egypt.” G-d made His declaration known, so that in this very year, when a baby boy or girl will be born, and someone will walk by and see this newborn infant lying in the stroller, it will strike him: here is a child whom G-d Himself told at Sinai, “I am the Lord thy G-d who took you out of Egypt!”

All the Supernal Angels were there… Moses and Aaron, the Seventy Elders, and all 600,000 Jewish Souls were there… They – along with even the birds and animals – heard G-d address this little baby’s soul at Sinai. But it is the parents who have the privilege to bring down this precious soul into the world, and to give it the merit to hear G-d’s word again as a soul in a body.