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 ...

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.

If the president knew the story of the golden calf, constructed by Aaron while Moses was on Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments from God, one would assume he’d think twice before ...