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— David Rothschild (@DavMicRot) February 26, 2021 OMFG whoever built this golden calf of Trump *must* have known about Bob’s Big Boy. COME ON. The only thing missing is the burger, probably ...
While the Calf was condemned as gross idolatry, the Ark was a permitted non-idolatrous religious image, sanctioned by God, complete with explicit instructions.
Why Moses’s brother worshipped a golden calf. Although Aaron induced plagues against Pharaoh, his weak faith led to the death of 3,000 men and the destruction of the original Ten Commandments.
Parshat Ki Tissa contains the great biblical tragedy of the Golden Calf. Strikingly, this idolatrous debacle is preceeded by an injunction to keep Shabbat. 1 It begs the question, why is the theme ...
Golden calves have always been expensive. In the Bible the Israelites paid a heavy price for worshiping one while Moses was off getting the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai. More recently a wealthy ...
Harvard University archeologists excavating Canaanite ruins surrounding the site of the ancient port city of Ashkelon have unearthed a ”golden calf” that was an object of worship dating from ...