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.

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Then Moses burned the calf, “he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it” (Exodus 32:15-20). (Also, don’t mess with Moses.) Moses confronted brother Aaron.

Aaron’s calf was a god the people could identify with, a god that reminded them of themselves, a vulnerable, comfortable, available god, rather than Moses’ difficult, remote, normally ...

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.

Moses was clearly trying to uplift the Jewish People and secure them forgiveness for the sin of the Golden Calf. Moses prayed intensely and used many different creative arguments.

When the golden calf was done, Aaron felt very sad but he did not give up hope that Moses would soon return. Tomorrow would be 40 days since Moses went up to the top of Mount Sinai.

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 ...

The more I study the Torah, the more conscious I become of the immense mystery of Exodus 33. This is the chapter set in the middle of the Golden Calf narrative, between chapter 32 describing the ...

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 ...