The Golden Calf, in other words, is the anti-Akedah. In case the parallels are still in doubt, Moses’ prayer makes the connection explicit. “Remember Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,” he entreats God.

Some of them accepted the golden calf as their god. Moses’s brother Aaron , who acted as their leader in Moses’s absence, was grieved and spoke up: “0 my people! You have been deceived.

Moshe broke the Tablets of the Law in response to the construction of the golden calf (Exodus 32:19; Ta’anit 28b). In ...

“When Moses came down the mountain bearing commandments you’d think that would spell the end for golden calf worship. But Gomer had a never-say-die attitude. He still thought his calves would ...

The weekly Torah reading for Jews this past Sabbath was Exodus 30:11-34:35. Chapter Ki Tisa discusses the ‘taking of the census’. It describes G-d’s commandment to Moses to collect a half ...

The lesson of the importance of patient, steadfast trust in God and God’s willingness to forgive, taught by the incident of the golden calf, is one of many mighty lessons taught in the Torah ...

The Golden Calf didn’t last long. Moses arrived and burned the idol, ground it to fine powder, scattered it on the water and forced everybody to drink.

Sheppard said Aaron, Moses’ younger brother and the high priest, had the people remove their ear jewelry for him to melt and form into a golden calf. “Here are a people who had been chosen by ...

Moses told them he was going up the mountain and he’d be back in 40 days. They miscalculated the amount of time he was away and feared he wouldn’t return. They revolted, and built a golden ...

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.

In the immediate aftermath of the golden calf, G-d provides an answer to this perplexing question. Moses, clearly bewildered by the sequence of events, asks G-d to explain Himself to him.