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.

A heartbroken nation is searching again for a missing Moses. The unwillingness to accept problems patiently is no different today than in the times of the golden calf.

Moses burnt the golden calf in a fire, ground it to powder, scattered it on water, and forced the Israelites to drink it.

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 ...

Thanks for joining our study about the famous Golden Calf. A violent story recorded in Exodus 32 of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. A “bumper sticker” summation is: “You make God angry - you ...

Before the golden calf was created, the Jews could find G-d within the wholesomeness of the tablets, within the spiritual wholesomeness of life.

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.

Rabbi Yehudah Halevi suggests that in the sin of the golden calf, “The people did not intend to give up their allegiance to God” in violation of the first of the Ten Declarations. Rather, they ...

Two other crucial events in this portion are when Moses brings down the stone tablets with the Ten Commandments inscribed on them and his fury at seeing the people worshipping the golden calf, the ...