Golden Calves in the Wilderness
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Arthur Boyd, The Golden Calf (1946)
When people tell me that they would find it easier to believe in God were they to see a miracle with their own eyes, I refer them to the thirty-second chapter of Exodus. No generation in history should have had an easier time believing and trusting in God than the Israelites in the desert. These liberated slaves had just witnessed the Ten Plagues, escaped through the miraculously parted Red Sea, and beheld God’s glory at Mount Sinai. Nonetheless, when Moses tarried on Mount Sinai, they panicked… [So] the people surround Moses’ brother, and demand that he fashion them a god.
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin – Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History