This is an art piece I (liana) made for my course Art Midrash on parshat yitro. It's based on the text below.
“And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lowermost part of (lit: underneath) the mount” (Exodus 19:17).
Rabbi Avdimi bar Ḥama bar Ḥasa said: The verse teaches that the Holy One, Blessed be He, overturned the mountain above the Jews like a tub, and said to them: If you accept the Torah, excellent, and if not, there will be your burial.
Rav Aḥa bar Ya’akov said: From here there is a substantial caveat to the obligation to fulfill the Torah. The Jewish people can claim that they were coerced into accepting the Torah, and it is therefore not binding.
Rava said: Even so, they again accepted it willingly in the time of Ahasuerus, as it is written: “The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them” (Esther 9:27), and he taught: The Jews ordained what they had already taken upon themselves through coercion at Sinai.
