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.

When the golden colored calf was done, Aaron decided to stall for one more day by saying they would celebrate with the calf the next day which would be 40 days since Moses first went up the left ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

As soon as Moses came near the camp and saw the golden calf and the dancing, he became enraged and he hurled the tablets from his hands and shattered them at the foot of the mountain” (Exodus 32 ...

The golden calf wasn’t meant to replace Moses; they could have picked another person for that. And it wasn’t meant as a replacement for God; they didn’t have to wait for a forty-day delay in ...

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 ...

Moreover, barely five chapters ago, we heard God exhorting Moses: “But you must observe My Sabbaths as a sign between Me and the Children of Israel” [Ex 31:12-17]. Why the repetition?

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, ...