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Many important moments of revelation, or self-examination, in the Bible occur in the desert.
- That is where Moses first encounters God, who assigns him as the leader of the enslaved Jews
- When the Jews reject God's Torah by worshiping the golden calf, they are sent out to the desert for forty years.
- Jesus spent forty days and nights in the desert, where he had to contend with and battle, the manipulative Devil and his temptations.
As one Rabbi described it, in the desert, with its immense sky, we can fully realize that there is one God. This enveloping and endless sky acts as our metaphor for the infinite and omnipresent God.