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.

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.

It doesn’t take a doctorate of divinity to see the parallel to this ludicrous idol worship and the episode of the golden calf, in which a faction of the Israelites, left alone by Moses for ...

High-resolution photography at the turquoise mines of Serabit el-Khadem in Egypt’s south-central Sinai Peninsula highlighted ...

It’s an icon in the culture—the satisfaction of what I already know that I need. No need to think or to dream. The Golden Calf appeals to a dead imagination. The life of imagination moves restlessly ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the opera’s climactic moment, Moses causes the golden calf to collapse onstage (“Be gone, you image of powerlessness”). In the third act (not performed in Zurich because Schoenberg never ...

It is, therefore, not terribly shocking that G-d would instruct us to fashion an image from the most beautiful substance in the universe. The Midrash ( Shemot Rabbah 35:1) teaches that G-d Created ...

Ancient Religion of Shamanism Flourishing To-Day; Older Than Judaism, It Is Practiced Now as It Was When Moses Eroke the Golden Calf. Share full article. July 17, 1904.