"They stood at the bottom of the mountain [at Sinai]" (Shemot 19:17)

Rav Avdimi bar Chama bar Chasa said:

This teaches that the Blessed Holy One

covered them with the mountain

as though it were an upturned vat,

and said to them:

"If you accept the Torah, fine.

But if not – your burial will be there!"

Rav Acha bar Yaakov said:

From here stem strong grounds for a notification regarding acceptance of the Torah.

Rava said:

Nevertheless, they accepted [the Torah] again in the days of Ahashverosh,

as it is written:

"The Jews ratified and accepted" (Esther 9:27) –

They ratified in the days of Ahashverosh

that which they had already accepted

in the days of Moses.

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