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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.