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 Song Rabbah 1:4 
(a midrash in which God asks Israel for guarantors before giving them the Torah)
 
This one kept going back and forth, but one text did prevail!

View Final Voting Results

Today's Vote
is between a passage from the Jewish mystical text, the Zohar, about the Torah and creation, and a passage from the Talmud about Moses getting a peek at the Torah of the future. 
 
Zohar on Genesis 90a 
(God created the world on the condition that Israel accept the Torah) 
 
vs. 
 
Babylonian Talmud Menachot 29b 
(Moses visits the future Rabbi Akiva's classroom)     

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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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https://www.bethahabah.org/omer-madness-2021