Seeking God’s Face
Featuring Rabbi Eliezer B. Diamond, Rabbi Judah Nadich Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, JTS, with Bronwen Mullin (RS 鈥�17)
Images of Mount Sinai and the Red Sea from a hand-painted in the JTS Library collection.
BT Shabbat 88a
Rabbi Avdimi bar Hama bar Hasa said: This teaches that the Holy Blessed One overturned the mountain above [the Israelites] like a tub, and said to them: If you accept the Torah, excellent, and if not, this will be your grave.
Rav Aha bar Ya鈥檃kov said: this is the basis for a serious objection against [the binding nature] of the Torah!
Rava said: despite this, the generation of Jews in the time of Ahasuerus accepted it willingly, as the Megillah says: 鈥淭he Jews established it, and took it upon themselves鈥� (Esther 9:27). This means that they established what they had previously taken upon themselves [at Sinai].
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