A Substantial Caveat To The Torah?”: Aggadot of the giving of the Torah on Shabbat 88a
This section of Masekhet Shabbat contains a series of aggadot (non-legal passages) about the giving of the Torah, including a very famous passage about what really happened when the Israelites stood “at the bottom of the mountain.” We will examine these aggadot, in conversation with each other and with later interpreters, to gain insight into the role of accepting Torah in our own lives.