{"id":41520,"date":"2018-10-07T04:12:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T01:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=41520"},"modified":"2022-05-01T09:26:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T06:26:54","slug":"egyptian-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/egyptian-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[440],"acf":{"old_id":"41520","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34235,"related_cahpter":"61","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Reparations - or trap?","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With just one plague left the preparations for the Israelite escape begin. The first step, well before the command of the paschal lamb or the unleavened bread, is the need to gather silver and gold from the Egyptians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Talmud views this command as some sort of recompense for the horrors inflicted upon the Israelites. It imagines a conversation between God and Moses: God requests that Moses tell the Israelites to ask the Egyptians for silver and gold, \u201clest Abraham argue that the exile and enslavement of his descendants was fulfilled, but the promise of leaving with great wealth was not.\u201d (see Genesis 15)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This silver and gold, the attainment of wealth, in many ways becomes the litmus test and arbiter for the escaped slaves in the book of Exodus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Moses gathers the people and asks them for gifts to build God\u2019s Temple they respond incredibly generously. They donate silver, and gold, and copper, and fine linens, and yarns, and precious stones, and woods. So much is donated that the artisans come running to Moses and report \u201cThe people are bringing more than we need to complete the work.\u201d Moses sends out a message telling everyone to stop donating. (Less surprising is their immediate compliance to this message)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet in the middle the story of the building of the tabernacle, we are told of a devious use of wealth: the fashioning of the golden calf. With Moses whereabouts unknown, Aaron instructs the unruly people to go and gather the gold earrings from their wives, sons, and daughters. But instead of heading home and returning with the necessary gold, they immediately remove their own gold rings and give them to Aaron. He then fashions the materials into the golden calf.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is the function of the gold and silver just the fulfillment of the prophecy in Genesis 15, or is it intended as a challenge to the runaway slaves? 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