Secondly, the Sinaitic/Mosaic covenant, the giving of the Torah, is another key Biblical event that is significant to Jewish Scriptures today. G-d remembered the covenant he had with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and he brought their descendants out of slavery in Egypt. While they were on their way to the land of Canaan, G-d made a covenant with them at Mount Sinai. As their ruler, he gave laws, and they agreed to keep them. In Shemot it says ‘If you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession’. The Sinaitic covenant, although it included mercy and promises, stressed human responsibilities. Moses told the people the laws and the people said ‘everything the Lord has said, we will do’. After G-d spoke the 10 commandments, the people asked Moses to be their mediator for the remainder of the covenant. Moses wrote down all of G-ds words and the next day, they had sacrifices and Moshe read the book of the covenant, and the people again agreed to obey. Moses sprinkled blood on the people saying ‘This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words’. The first covenant was put into effect with blood. An animal was cut and the people came under the covenant by being sprinkled with its blood. The 10 commandments formed the core of this covenant. Although it was equated with the 10 commandments, the covenant also included all laws and commandments that G-d wrote for our instruction. Therefore, the Sinaitic covenant is like a marriage ceremony; G-d provides Israel with needs, then Israel is loyal to G-d so they wont worship or embrace others and finally, G-d and Israel love each other so commit so one another. This tells us what our relationship should be like with Hashem and teaches us to follow all the commandments and mitzvoth from the Torah, as He is very important to the Jewish people and to Jewish Scriptures.
The third covenant, the Adamic covenant, creation, is another key Biblical event that is significant to Jewish Scriptures. This covenant describes G-d creation of humanity. It establishes the key expectations that G-d has for Adam and humanity in general. It is therefore a universal covenant. The term ‘Adamic Covenant’ expresses the timeless relationship with G-d has with the creation in general and with humans in particular. Unlike the other covenants, the Adamic Covenant does not state explicitly what humans have to do in order to maintain it. Instead, the duties of the covenant are implied through G-d’s blessings. It begins with the concept of ‘Let us make Man’. In Bereshit it says ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness’. This implies that it is a joint creation of humanity, as there is only one G-d. Adam is expected to be an equal partner in his on creation. G-d creates Adam (and us all), in a physical sense and gives us the potential to achieve. It is up to Adam to achieve that potential. Adam is created in G-d’s image, he is like G-d in the fact he has free choice and the ability to be a creator himself. Adam has powers and abilities, which are ‘godlike’ which gives him and humanity a great responsibility to utilise this gift carefully. G-d gives Adam control over the Earth’s resources and expects him to use them to achieve his full potential. Specifically G-d requires Adam to have dominion over the Earth. He is to be G-d’s representative/agent in this world. The one clear condition or action for Adam in this covenant is to “Be fruitful and multiply and to fill the earth, replenish the earth and subdue it’. Adam is instructed to have many children. The first duty of all 613 mitzvot is that the establishing of a home and having family. Overall, creation proves G-ds existence and introduces his role of humanity. The Moshiach will only come when all souls have descended to the Earth so its one of G-d’s commandments to carry on future generations, which is followed up in Jewish Scriptures today.
Finally, another key Biblical event that is significant do Jewish Scriptures is the Abrahamic Covenant. The Abrahamic Covenant is the set of unconditional, unbreakable, binding promises G-d made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that begins his relationship with the Jewish People. The covenant establishes a unique bond between Israel and G-d, promises G-d’s protection for the Jewish People and remains in effect. God made promises to Abraham that required nothing of Abraham. It is also a literal covenant in which the promises should be understood literally. The land that is promised should be understood in its literal or normal interpretation—it is not a figure of heaven. It is also an everlasting covenant. The promises that God made to Israel are eternal. The first covenant is G-d’s covenant with Abraham in order to create a people for Himself. G-d asked Abraham to have faith, take everything he had and knew, and up to a new place and leave his home town. In exchange, G-d wanted to take Avraham to what would be the Promised Land, and make His own people. This is the basic idea for Jews being the Chosen People. ‘He will make his name great’. Hashem will make Avraham famous to help with his spiritual mission of gathering together the people of Israel. G-d also promised to make Avraham the father of His people, and said that Avraham and his descendants must obey the laws of G-d. In return, G-d would guide them and protect them and give them the land of Israel. G-d wanted the Jews to live their lives in such a way as to show the world that G-d actually was the one and only all-powerful G-d, who people should follow and worship. ‘Hashem will take Avraham to a promise land’ and ‘leave your father and homeland’ and ‘follow Hashem to a promised land’. Rashi believe that by Hashem only telling Avraham that he was taking him to a promise land it kept Avraham in suspense, it therefore made the destination more beloved in Abraham’s eyes. It also enabled him to be rewarded for every step he took, as he had enough trust in G-d to follow him. The Torah expresses Abraham’s test was in ascending difficulty – it is hard to leave ones homeland, harder to leave ones extended family, and harder than both to leave ones parents. It is important to Jewish Scriptures because this covenant is still in place today and many people can learn to have faith in Hashem and trust Him, and in return, G-d will keep on looking after you and it helps people to believe there is only one G-d.
In conclusion, there are many key Biblical events that have taken place and that are still commented on and read in Jewish Scriptures so people can learn morals and lessons from the past. We can also learn what our relationship with G-d should be like and that no matter what, having faith in our own religion is the most important thing.