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Perhaps the worship of the Golden Calf takes such primacy of place in Jewish communal memory, serving as the liturgical focus of our fasting, because it’s the antithesis of our founding father ...
They likely saw him as a demigod. The Golden Calf wasn’t an attempt to replace HaShem but actually Moshe as what they might have seen as a subordinate deity. Manitou teaches that it actually ...
Now they were dancing around a golden calf and yelling “this is your god, Israel, who has brought you up from Egypt!” Forty days earlier, they stood at the foot of Mt. Sinai, and experienced ...
One day, I had a flash of insight about Leviticus as a whole. I saw it, in the main, as a response to the Golden Calf. This insight gave me a structure and a starting point. Such patterns of thinking ...
This week’s Torah portion, Ki Tisa, includes the story of the Golden Calf, the dramatic moment during the Exodus when the people of Israel lapsed into idolatry, sparking an angry reaction from Moses ...
Moses told the story of the Golden Calf in Exodus 32 to show the ease with which sin may be entered into and the wrath of God that will ensue. Ministers Scott Sheppard and Vaughny Taylor say the ...