Mount Sinai
| Mount Sinai | |||
 View from the top of Mount Sinai | |||
| Geography | |||
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| Altitude | 2285 m | ||
| Solid | Sinai | ||
| Contact | 28 32 '23 "North 33 58 '24 "East / 28.53972, 33.97333 28 32'23" N 33 58'24 "E / 28.53972, 33.97333 | ||
| Administration | |||
| Country |  Egypt | ||
| Governorate | South Sinai | ||
| Ascension | |||
| Route Easiest | Face is Road camels | ||
| Geology | |||
Geolocation on the map: Egypt
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Mount Sinai (Arabic: ) or Jebel Musa (Mount Moses) is a mountain of Egypt 's massive Sinai high of 2285 meters .
Summary |
Mount Sinai , "Mountain of Moses" in Arabic , , in Hebrew , also known as the or in Egypt is a holy place that takes a important place in the Mediterranean monotheistic religions.
This is where the religion Hebrew , Moses , having liberated the people of Hebrew in Egypt and crossing the Red Sea which then closed on the Egyptian army; received Yahweh the Decalogue (The Ten Commandments) also called Tables of the Law. However, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, he saw the Hebrews, led by his brother Aaron, to worship a golden calf; took anger, he broke the Tables of the Law on a rock and had to return to the top of Mount Sinai to reburn the tables to conclude the pact of alliance between the Jewish people and God . This episode of the Old Testament is accompanied by strong symbolic images to show the omnipotence of the Creator such as thunder and lightning, flames and thick smoke covering the mountains.
The Bible also refers to this episode of the Exodus of the Hebrews to Canaan, but it is still referred to Mount Horeb, which would in the opinion of experts in theology, another name of Mount Sinai.
The Qur'an also refers to without there being any written record absolutely explicit, yet it is referred to the different commands independently of each other and the choice of Moses by the God of Christians and Jews .
The Israelites saw already the Sinai as a holy land , but tribes Semitic present long before the Hebrews and Egyptians worshiped the deities already present in these mountains. In rabbinic literature classic, Mount Sinai became synonymous with holiness, because it says that: "When the Messiah of the Jews will come, God will join the Sinai mountains, Tabor and Caramel together and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem ".
On a spiritual mountain is repeatedly cited by theologians as the "mystical Sinai," as an initiation rite, consecrating a spirituality upward leading to the discovery of a "higher self" at the its summit becomes the symbolic goal of remaining at the heart of many initiation practices of Christian inspiration, Shiite and Sufi .
Photos
 Sunrise at Mount Sinai. |  View from Mount Sinai. |  Chapel at the top. |
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