BRUCE LICHT
FOUNDER OF MY ELEVATOR PITCH FOR GOD, ENTREPRENEUR, AND AUTHOR
Bruce grew up in Lafayette, California and received a BA in Political Science from UCLA as well as a Graduate Gemologist degree from the Gemological Institute of America. After graduating, Bruce operated his family’s 100 year-old retail fine jewelry business for twenty-two years. Bruce had a passion for computers and graphic arts, so he changed careers and joined his best friend at a national technical publishing company for seventeen-years as the company’s Publisher, where they invented the modern labor law poster industry, including the first “All- On-One Labor Law Poster” and “Labor Law Poster Compliance Plan.”
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The National Revelation Argument
BRUCE LICHT
God’s revelation at Mount Sinai, just fifty days after more than three million Jewish slaves left Egypt in the Exodus, is to this day an unparalleled event in human history. (1) There has been no other people to have, or even to claim to have had, a national revelation. There has been no other event that has had as many present, live eyewitnesses. (2) This event, and all the documented miracles leading up to and surrounding it, brings about a number of serious questions that beg explanation and where the answers, or actually lack thereof, point to a conclusive proof of God’s existence.
1) Explain how more than three million Jews (3) (and generation after generation of their descendants) came to originally believe that they were once slaves in Egypt, and were saved as a result of ten miraculous plagues, (4) if that did not actually happen?
2) Explain how the first Jewish Passover Festival, which celebrates the Jews leaving Egypt, observed yearly by millions of Jews around the world, originally came to be if the Exodus did not actually happen? (5)
3) Explain how at a time when all calendars were notoriously inaccurate, the Jews determined how to calculate a lunar month, to within 0.000006 seconds from NASA’s modern-day calculation? (6)
4) Explain how you get more than three million Jews to believe that the Red Sea split if it did not actually happen? (7)
5) Explain how you get more than three million Jews to be supposedly “duped” into believing that God revealed Himself to them at Mount Sinai if it did not actually happen? (8)
6) Explain how the first Jewish Shavuot Festival, which celebrates the giving of the Torah at the Sinai revelation, observed yearly by millions of Jews around the world, originally came to be if the Sinai revelation did not actually happen? (9)
7) Explain how you get more than three million Jews to believe that they ate manna or drank water in the desert for 40 years if that did not actually happen? (10)
8) Explain how you get more than three million Jews to believe that they were enveloped by protective clouds for 40 years if that did not actually happen? (11)
9) If the Sinai revelation did not happen, with the giving of the Torah authored by God, explain how when there were no sea-faring nations at the time, the exact dimensions of the Ark in Genesis were arrived at, recognized today as the optimum proportions for maximum buoyancy? (12)
10) If the Sinai revelation did not happen, with the giving of the Torah authored by God, explain how the ten Kosher animals having two unique criteria (and the four animals which have one and not the other) were arrived at? A list that to this day has not changed. (13)
These amazing events, accepted by millions of simultaneous, live eyewitnesses (and their descendants), cannot honestly be explained as fictitious. (14) Ultimately, the only rational explanation is that these events did indeed actually occur, serving as overwhelming evidence for proof of the existence of God.
Footnotes:
1) From TORAH 101 with Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe at Torchweb.org: #90: Testimony at Sinai on February 23, 2025.
In order to make it clear to everyone that the Sinai revelation is legitimate, God did something unprecedented. He revealed Himself to a nation of millions of people, and they all survived to tell the tale, and to perpetuate it to their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on until today so we know for sure that this event happened.
The fact that this event happened has been passed down from teachers to their students, from parents to their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on until today in “unbroken chains” of transmission.
For one example of hundreds of an unbroken chain of transmission, visit:
https://www.myelevatorpitchforgod.com/all-authors/brtan-licht
2) There were more present, live eyewitnesses to this event than to any other event in world history—over three million people—so there is no event that has as much reliability as this one.
The fact that this event happened has been passed down from teachers to their students, from parents to their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on until today in “unbroken chains” of transmission.
For one example of hundreds of an unbroken chain of transmission, visit:
https://www.myelevatorpitchforgod.com/all-authors/brtan-licht
3) How do we know there were more than three million Jews witnessing this once in history event? We know because they took censuses.
The first census in the Torah at Mount Sinai is recorded in the Book of Numbers / Parshas Barmidbar / Chapter 1 / Starting Verse 2. It counted every fit, fighting age male Israelite, aged 20 years and older, to assess the fighting strength of the nation after their exodus from Egypt. The calculation, that the population of people who witnessed the Sinai revelation was over three million people, is an extrapolation based on the biblical census figure of 603,550 fighting age men, plus those not counted which included women, children, the elderly, and the Levite tribe (not to mention the mixed multitudes that left Egypt with the Jews).
The second census in the Torah is recorded in Numbers / Parshas Pinchas / Chapter 26 / Starting Verse 1.
The purpose was specifically to count all the male Israelites, aged 20 years and older, following a plague after the incident with Korah's rebellion and the plague that followed. This census details the new generation of Israelites as they prepare to enter Israel for the purpose of dividing up the Promised Land. The second census came to 601,730 people, and again did not include women, children, the elderly, and the Levite tribe.
They were originally counted when they were entrusted to Moses (the first census) and now they are being counted again (the second census) as they are being “given back.”
The count of the second census in order:
1) Reuben the first born of Israel – The count of the Reubenites was 43,730
2) The sons of Simeon – The count of the Simeonites was 22,200
3) The sons of Gad – The count of the Gadites was 40,500
4) The sons of Judah – The count of the Judahites was 76,500
5) The sons of Issachar – The count of the Issacharites was 64,300
6) The sons of Zebulun – The count of the Zebulunites was 60,500
7) The sons of Manasseh (who was a son of Joseph) – The count of the Manassehites was 52,700 (Including Zelophehad’s five daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Haglah, Milcah and Tirzah)
8) The sons of Ephraim (who was a son of Joseph) – The count of the Ephraimites was 32,500
9) The sons of Benjamin – The count of the Benjaminites was 45,600
10) The sons of Dan – The count of the Danites was 64,400
11) The sons of Asher – The count of the Asherites was 53,400
12) The sons of Nephtali – The count of the Nephtalites was 45,400
“These are the counting’s of the sons of Israel:” (before they entered Israel) 601,730
4) The first three plagues (Blood, Frogs and Bugs) all began beneath the ground - they were all subterranean. And that shows that God has dominion over what is below us.
The next three plagues (Wild Animals, Pestilence and Boils) are at ground level - God is in control of what is around us?
The next three plagues (Hail, Locusts and Darkness) are from above, and that demonstrates to all that God is in control of what is above us as well.
The final 10th plague (Death of First Born) was a very clear message - You mess with God’s first born, I’ll mess with yours.
Also, from Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe: Parshas Vaeira (Rebroadcast):
There is a pattern among the 10 Plagues where two come with warning (that have a threat to life) and the 3rd one does not come with warning (and does not have a threat to life).
And in the Commentary on the Torah by Rabbi Ovadiah ben Jacob Sforno, a 16th-century Italian rabbi and physician – He said that the first 4 plagues (Blood, Frogs, Lice, Swam of Wild Animals) effects lingered on and on. The last 6 plagues (Pestilence Epidemic, Boils, Hail, Locusts, Darkness, Death of Firstborn) were terribly painful - Lots of suffering for the Egyptians - but once they were over, their affects ended with them. Whereas the effects of the final 4 plagues lasted for many months and years after the plague was finished.
So, the 10 Plagues of Egypt and the patterns are:
1) Dam – Blood
• the plague came with warning and was a threat to life
• terribly painful for Egyptians but their affects ended with end of plague
2) Tzefardeia – Frogs
• the plague came with warning and was a threat to life
• terribly painful for Egyptians but their affects ended with end of plague
3) Kinim – Lice
• the plague came without warning and did not have a threat to life
• terribly painful for Egyptians but their affects ended with end of plague
4) Arov – Swarm of Wild Animals
• the plague came with warning and was a threat to life
• terribly painful for Egyptians but their affects ended with end of plague
5) Dever – Pestilence Epidemic
• the plague came with warning and was a threat to life
• terribly painful for Egyptians but their affects ended with end of plague
6) Shechin – Boils
• the plague came without warning and did not have a threat to life
• terribly painful for Egyptians but their affects ended with end of plague
7) Barad – Hail
• the plague came with warning and was a threat to life
• the plague’s effects lingered on and on
8) Arbeh – Locusts
• the plague came with warning and was a threat to life
• the plague’s effects lingered on and on
9) Choshech – Darkness
• the plague came without warning and did not have a threat to life
• the plague’s effects lingered on and on
10) Makkat Bechorot – Death of The Firstborn
• the plague came with warning and was a threat to life
• the plague’s effects lingered on and on
The fact that these plagues happened has been passed down from teachers to their students, from parents to their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on until today in “unbroken chains” of transmission.
For one example of hundreds of an unbroken chain of transmission, visit:
https://www.myelevatorpitchforgod.com/all-authors/brtan-licht
5) Every Single Year At The Designated Time – Pesach
The Hebrew word, “Haggadah” means to tell, to transmit, to teach. A “Haggadah” is a book (that tells the story of the Jewish Exodus from Egypt) which is used to lead the Passover Seder service each year as commanded in the Torah in:
Exodus / Parshas Bo / Chapter 13 / Verses 8-10
“And you shall tell your s (children) on that day saying, ‘it is because of this that HASHEM acted on my behalf (for me) when I left Egypt’ and it shall be for you a sign on your arm and a reminder between your eyes – so that HASHEM’s Torah may be in your mouth – for with a strong hand HASHEM removed you from Egypt. You shall observe this decree at the designated time from year to year.”’
There is zero chance of convincing three million Jews of something that did not happen. How do you convince three million Jews that they were once slaves in Egypt and were miraculously freed (bringing about the celebration of Passover) if it was not true? Someone, or a group of people, would have had to be very convincing. Not likely, in fact I would say impossible.
The fact that this enslavement and redemption occurred has been passed down from teachers to their students, from parents to their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on until today in “unbroken chains” of transmission.
For one example of hundreds of an unbroken chain of transmission, visit:
https://www.myelevatorpitchforgod.com/all-authors/brtan-licht
6) How is it possible that over 3,300 years ago, the newly freed Jewish slaves from Egypt were able to properly determine the exact length of a lunar month to within one tenth of a second?
The first commandment that was given in the Book of Exodus within the Old Testament was for the Jews to maintain a lunar calendar.
Exodus / Parshas Bo / Chapter 12 / Verses 1-2
“HASHEM said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, ‘This month shall be for you the beginning of the months, it shall be for you the first of the months.’”
It is noteworthy that the Talmud, a document that is thousands of years old, tells us the equation used by the ancient Jews to determine the length of a lunar month down to the millisecond. It breaks down an hour not into sixty minutes but into 1080 “chalakim,” meaning that each minute is eighteen chalakim long, and it states that a lunar month is exactly 29 and 1/2 days and no less than 793 chalakim. This comes to 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, and ~3.3 seconds, or 29.530594 days (a difference of only 0.000006 from NASA’s modern-day calculation). Did they have supernatural knowledge of the natural world? All the other calendars of ancient times were extremely arbitrary and inexact, however this ancient calendar calculation has withstood scientific scrutiny and the test of time to this day.
How did the Jews comprehend how to compute, organize, sustain, and perpetuate a calendar? This calculation demands a massive extent of specialized knowledge that goes far beyond an understanding of the cycles of the seasons. They didn’t have the mathematical expertise, the highly sophisticated technical apparatuses, or space exploration vehicles to understand the wisdom of the heavens. How could they have figured this out if they did not have Divine assistance? The answer is, they couldn’t have
For more information, visit:
https://www.myelevatorpitchforgod.com/all-authors/brad-licht
7) There is zero chance of convincing three million Jews of something that did not happen. How do you convince three million Jews that the Red Sea split if it didn’t happen? Someone, or a group of people, would have had to be very convincing. Not likely, in fact I would say impossible.
The fact that this event happened has been passed down from teachers to their students, from parents to their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on until today in “unbroken chains” of transmission.
For one example of hundreds of an unbroken chain of transmission, visit:
https://www.myelevatorpitchforgod.com/all-authors/brtan-licht
8) In order to make sure that the truth will be so reliable and unquestionable, the people were elevated temporarily to the state of prophets. They were given a state of consciousness, clarity, and of absolute focus in order to eliminate any doubt and uncertainty.
The fact that this event happened has been passed down from teachers to their students, from parents to their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on until today in “unbroken chains” of transmission.
For one example of hundreds of an unbroken chain of transmission, visit:
https://www.myelevatorpitchforgod.com/all-authors/brtan-licht
9) The Festival of Shavuot commemorates the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai from God. If this event did not happen, explain how the first Jewish Shavuot Festival happened? What caused the Jewish people to all of a sudden change the way they ate, dressed, prayed, celebrated holidays, acted from Friday at sunset to Saturday at sunset, conduct their lives, etc.? It had to be something really BIG!
There is zero chance of convincing three million Jews of something that did not happen. How do you convince three million Jews that they were given the Torah at Mount Sinai (bringing about the celebration of Shavuot) if it was not true? Someone, or a group of people, would have had to be very convincing. Not likely, in fact I would say impossible.
The fact that the Torah was given at the Sinai revelation has been passed down from teachers to their students, from parents to their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on until today in “unbroken chains” of transmission.
For one example of hundreds of an unbroken chain of transmission, visit:
https://www.myelevatorpitchforgod.com/all-authors/brtan-licht
10) There is zero chance of convincing three million Jews of something that did not happen. How do you convince three million Jews that they ate manna for 40 years if it didn’t happen? Someone, or a group of people, would have had to be very convincing. Not likely, in fact I would say impossible.
That’s three million people times three meals a day, times 365 days a year, times 40 years.
That’s 131,400,000,000 meals delivered (or 87,600,000,000 meals at two meals/day).
Likewise, how do you convince three million Jews that they drank water in the dessert for 40 years if it didn’t happen? Someone, or a group of people, would have had to be very convincing. Not likely, in fact I would say impossible.
How much water did the Jews use in the 40 years in the dessert? Enough To Fill 52,560 Olympic size swimming pools.
How much water does a person need every day? - 3 liters / day.
How much water does a person need every year? - 3 x 365 = 1,095 liters / year.
How much water does a person need for 40 years? – 1,095 x 40 = 43,800 liters.
How much water does 3 million people need for 40 years? - 43,800 x 3 million = 131,400,000,000 liters of water / year.
1 liter - .26 gallons
1 gallon – 3.79 liters
How many gallons is that? 3.79 x 131,400,000,000 =
How many Olympic size swimming pools would this fill? – 52,560 pools
And this is water just for the people, not counting what is needed for all of the animals.
The fact that the Jews ate manna and drank water in the desert for 40 years has been passed down from teachers to their students, from parents to their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on until today in “unbroken chains” of transmission.
For one example of hundreds of an unbroken chain of transmission, visit:
https://www.myelevatorpitchforgod.com/all-authors/brtan-licht
11) There is zero chance of convincing three million Jews of something that did not happen. How you get more than three million Jews to believe that they were enveloped by protective clouds for 40 years if that did not happen? Someone, or a group of people, would have had to be very convincing. Not likely, in fact I would say impossible.
The fact that this event happened has been passed down from teachers to their students, from parents to their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on until today in “unbroken chains” of transmission.
For one example of hundreds of an unbroken chain of transmission, visit:
https://www.myelevatorpitchforgod.com/all-authors/brtan-licht
12) We know from nautical engineering studies conducted in the 1990’s that to design a boat for maximum buoyancy, the width should be 1/6th its length, and the height, 1/10th its length. Is it a coincidence that in Genesis, the first book of the Bible, Noah was told to make an Ark 300 cubits long by 50 cubits wide by 30 cubits tall? Noah’s Ark, constructed 700-800 years before Greek physics, around when Homer wrote “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey,” had the precise dimensions necessary for maximum buoyancy. How did Noah, a farmer, know this secret? Were there any seafaring nations that passed their collected, iterative knowledge on to him? Where is the record of tinkering with the dimensions of a ship until someone discovered this precise formulation?
For additional examples of never before known information “suddenly appearing” out of nowhere, see an essay by John E. McNulty, at:
https://www.myelevatorpitchforgod.com/all-authors/john-e.-mcnulty
13) If the Sinai revelation did not happen, with the giving of the Torah authored by God, explain how the ten Kosher animals having two unique criteria (and the four animals which have one and not the other) were arrived at? A list that to this day has not changed.
For a thorough explanation and supporting sources, visit:
https://www.myelevatorpitchforgod.com/all-authors/brian-licht
There is zero chance of convincing three million Jews of something that did not happen. How you get more than three million Jews to believe that the Kosher laws were given at Mount Sinai if they were not? Someone, or a group of people, would have had to be very convincing. Not likely, in fact I would say impossible.
The fact that this event happened has been passed down from teachers to their students, from parents to their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on until today in “unbroken chains” of transmission.
For one example of hundreds of an unbroken chain of transmission, visit:
https://www.myelevatorpitchforgod.com/all-authors/brtan-licht
14) These events, accepted by millions of simultaneous, live eyewitnesses, cannot honestly be explained as fictitious.
How many people witnessed George Washing or Abraham Lincoln? Far less people than ate manna, drank water and saw the Sinai revelation.
It is bordering on the insane to think millions of Jews could get together and agree on something that didn’t happen. They are not very agreeable people. The Torah calls them “stiff-necked” people. It’s hard to get ten people let alone three million to agree. Are they that stupid that they could be “hood-winked” into believing all these lies? And when they were given a Book (5 of them) that said it happened, would they go along with it if it had not happened? I don’t think so.