Omer Madness Text Study Bracket

A daily text study in the days leading up to Shavuot on relevant themes like the Torah and Mount Sinai. Your votes determine which texts move on!

Results of our last match-up: Exodus Rabbah 28:4-6
(A midrash about how even people yet unborn were present at Sinai)
 
View Final Voting Results

Today's vote
is between a Biblical commentator and a passage from the Talmud, both about God giving Israel the Torah. 

Mekhilta d’Rabbi Ishmael, Exodus 19.28, 20.2 
(Rabbi Ishmael asks: Why was the Torah not given in the land of Israel?) 
 
vs. 
 
Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 88a 
(God holds the mountain over the people Israel)  

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Remember, voting closes at 9am tomorrow morning!
We will report the winner in our noon email tomorrow, which will also ​​​​​​​include the next match-up.
 
We hope you enjoy!

Rabbi Scott Nagel & Cantor Sarah Beck-Berman

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