A connection is not truly unique if the person is aware at the time of connection that he has the option of connecting with someone else as well. By subsequently connecting with another, the uniqueness of the original connection is gone. The fact that he can do so shows that neither connection is truly complete.
For this reason our Sages teach us that Hashem was saddened that even at the moment of the giving of the Torah the people were already inclined to worship the Golden Calf. Even standing at Sinai they were not truly given over to Hashem. Had they been, they would have been incapable of their subsequent behavior. Their disloyal behavior shows that their initial devotion was not completely sincere.
Judging a generation greater than any imaginable ... by a generation so removed from Sinai as to be unable to perceive is magnificance ... makes drawing judgments of their behavior ... based on the behavior of thos men of the current era
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