Shabbat 89a and Shabbat 89b, finishing up our discussion of how the Giving of the Torah went at Sinai, including the Jews’ ability to bear the awesome experience, Moshe’s defending people’s right to the Torah. From there, we also saw ways the Patriarchs did or did not defend the Jews from strict divine justice, based on the verse we had quoted back in the Mishnah about tying a red string to the goat sent to Azazel on Yom Kippur.
