As Jews, our character and faith are defined essentially by the story of our ancient liberation from slavery in Egypt, informing our concern for the welfare of those who are similarly oppressed. But ...

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 ...

Read Beth Kissileff's review of The Hidden Order of Intimacy by Aviva Zornberg. After writing a book about Genesis, another about Exodus, and another about Numbers, you were hesitant to write about ...

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 wanted ...

A golden calf, described as antedating by 500 years the golden calf of Moses’s day, was shown an invited group by Prof. James H. Breasted, Egyptologist of the University of Chicago. After being ...

What’s the essential difference between the golden cherubim that were carved on top of the ark of the covenant and the golden calf constructed by Aaron in the wilderness? A skeptical “biblical scholar ...