Lead Tidbit
Purposely Out of Order
We touched upon this concept in last week's Lead Tidbit, and here it is again... in spades (as they say). The laws of EVED IVRI (Jewish manservant), to use one example of many from the sedra, are presented at the beginning of Parshat Mishpatim. When did G-d first teach these laws to Moshe Rabeinu? Sometime between the firstShavuot and the 17th of Tammuz, i.e. during the 40 days and nights Moshe remained on Har Sinai. (This is, at least, one major opinion.) When did Moshe Rabeinu first teach these laws to the people of Israel? Sometime after the first Yom Kippur, the delay being caused by the Golden Calf, the smashed Luchot, and Moshe's subsequent ascent(s) of the Mountain. (Again, this is the subject of dispute among m'farshim.)

At the end of the sedra (Mishpatim), the Torah tells us more about the events of Matan Torah and possibly the days immediately before.
We either have the bulk of Mishpatim with its 53 mitzvot interposed within the account of Revelation at Sinai when, in fact, they "belong" to a later time, or (according to some opinions), we have a lot more happening at Sinai than it seems from Parshat Yitro.

Which ever way you look at it, the notion that the Ten Commandments was all that G-d revealed to us at Sinai is ridiculous. Sh'mot 24:12 - G-d said to Moshe, come up the mountain to Me, and I will give you the Luchot, and the Torah, and the Mitzvot...

The Aseret HaDibrot were a down pay- ment in stone for that which we were to receive throughout the 40 years in the Midbar. During that time, the rest of Torah would be transmitted orally. At the end of the time in the Midbar, the written part of Torah would actually be written and the Sifrei Torah would be entrusted to the leaders of each tribe and to the kohanim for safegaurd. The oral parts of the Torah would continue to be transmitted from teacher to student throughout the generations.
But it ALL came from Sinai.