Study Avodah Zarah folio 3B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
when the season of Tammuz extends until the festival of Sukkot, and in such years sitting in the sukka causes them suffering. The Talmud asks: But doesn’t Rava say that one who suffers in the sukka is exempt from performing the mitzva of sukka, and under these circumstances even a Jew is permitted
The Talmud resumes its narration: Immediately, God sits and makes sport of those non-Jews, i.e., He laughs at them, as it is stated: “He that sits in heaven makes sport, YHWH has them in derision” (Psalms 2:4). With regard to this verse, R' Yitzḥak says: There is no making sport for God but on that
There are those who teach that which R' Yitzḥak subsequently said with regard to this matter, as it is taught in a baraita that R' Yosei says: In the future, the non-Jewish nations will come and convert. The Talmud asks: And do we accept them as converts at that time? But isn’t it taught in another
Rather, R' Yosei means that they become converts who have attached themselves to the Jewish people, and they don tefillin on their heads, tefillin on their arms, place tzitzit on their garments, and a mezuza in their doorways.
When these converts see the war of Gog and Magog, every convert of this sort will say to Gog and Magog: For what purpose did you come? They will say to him: We came to fight against YHWH and against His Messiah, as it is stated: “Why are the nations in an uproar? And why do the peoples mutter in v