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by SketchySeaBeast 388 days ago
> That's absolutely not true. First of all, there was an enormous crowd of people: 600,000 families--millions of people--who received the revelation on Mt. Sinai.

It's true that it was very regional, within the reach of a group of people's ability to communicate.

> And secondly, G-d offered the Torah to all the peoples of the world.

Did he? Did all the other cultures of the world about that time simply not answer the door?