But Moses feared that if he only destroyed the golden calf and not the tablets, perhaps the people would conclude that the tablets were sub-deities. In the words of Rabbi Meir Simcha quoted by ...

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.

And as we read in the parsha, Moses destroyed the Golden Calf, after the receipt of the Ten Commandments, which started off by the injunction to have no other Gods. Killing off images began with ...

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.

Moses, outraged by the sight of a golden calf erected by the Hebrews as a deity, smashed the stone tablets. He apparently felt that the Jews were undeserving of them, and that it would be ...

The Rev. Taylor, pastor of Central Baptist Church, said Moses interceded to persuade God not to destroy all the Israelites just as Jesus Christ intercedes now for repentant Christians when they sin.

First, that he was to bring a sin-offering, the transgression of the golden calf still vividly before him, AND, that, whilst the offering of the people was a burnt-offering, which is brought for ...

We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson, out on November 18.While Moses is on the mountaintop communing with God—a terrible but enlightening enterprise—and establishing the explicit rules ...

In the Bible, the Israelites build the golden calf while Moses is on Mount Sinai receiving the Ten Commandments. In the movie, the scene is more intense and includes a confrontation between Moses ...