The start of Judaism is unlike that of any other religion on earth. While most religions inevitably start with a revelation of sorts involving one, or at most a few people, Judaism's revelation (The Giving of the Torah at Mt Sinai) happens in front of the ENTIRE nation -- millions of people -- men, women and children.
These people, our ancestors, related what they had seen and experienced to generation after generation of Jews, creating a direct, unbroken chain of testimony.
Food for thought: why, indeed, is Judaism the only religion to have this type of beginning (a revelation seen by the entire nation)?
Shabbat Shalom,
- Rabbi Yitzi Schmukler