In the Torah, there are various accounts of a “waving”. The most well-known is the waving of the lulav on Sukkot (see “Long Enough to Wave” . However, that is not the mysterious waving, rather it occurs, in for instance in Tetzaveh 29:5, we have "You shall wave them (the people), as a waving before HaShem.” In Beha’alotecha Numbers 8:11, we hear that Aaron “lift(ed) up the Levites as a waving before the Lord”. How was that done?

How to understand Aaron (and perhaps Moses) “waving” 22,000 people? Perhaps it is a movement that occurs in a different time/space continuum than the one we are familiar with, but a movement nevertheless that has an effect on this reality.

Note: The only imaginative explanation I can find for this, is to compare it to the modern concepts of fields and waves. That Aaron was able to “wave” the people, as if they became liquid, and all moved “like waves on an ocean.” A modern comparison was a Grateful Dead concert. When the music plays, everyone moves in harmony, there is a communal togetherness in the dancing. People danced as individuals, but the in tune with the communal “rhythm”. When the music stopped, they separated into individual beings all on their own paths, with no overall harmony – unless goal orientated, like exiting together.

This is also an example of the difference between evolution and revolution, the difference between a revolutionary group that succeeds to power. A different mindset is required to run and maintain and nurture that society. In an harmonious situation, this is typified by the harmony extant in the GD concert–when the music is playing, a sound that everyone hears, and attunes themselves to.

Thus it was at Sinai, hearing the Word of G-d. A sound, a vibration, that did not consist of one word, but of multiple, producing a harmonic, that caused everyone to “wave”, to move as if in waves–or even currents–like a flowing river, filled with many currents and eddies, but always the river runs to the ocean.