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:
Song of Songs Rabbah 1:2 
(A midrash in which the words of Torah are likened to waters)
 
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Today's Vote
is between two very famous passages: one in the Talmud about who determines the Torah law on earth, and a midrash about God asking for guarantors before giving the Torah to Israel. 
 
Babylonian Talmud Bava Metzia 59b 
(the story of the oven of akhnai:
Rabbis argue about what can determine the law)
 
vs. 
 
Song of Songs Rabbah 1:4 
(a midrash in which God asks Israel for guarantors 
before giving them the Torah)    

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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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