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According to Professor James Kugel, the rabbinic sages understood the words of Torah to be “omni-significant”, namely, that its text is meaningful in ways that span beyond its literal meaning. Objectively, this means that when the sages read the Torah, they were forever in search of clues for unexplored meaning. Unusual phraseology, seeming superfluity, words with multiple meanings all offered potential for unfolding God’s divine message. Already, in the earliest rabbinic commentaries on the Ten Commandments, the sages seemed perplexed over the content of the opening statement of the Ten Commandments: “I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of th