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Moses has disappeared into the clouds, maybe gone, maybe absconded into angelhood. The ringing trumpets and unfathomable Voice heard at Sinai have disappeared back into Sinaitic silence. In their place, the text crackles with antsy nervousness and unease. Maybe the intimacy of the encounter with the Divine left them on edge, either in destabilizing shock or with a greedy desire for more. Those forty days of waiting must have been textured by the subtle shifting of mood and the rising volume of tented mutterings and increasingly baleful glances. The days added up, perhaps notched onto a hide or grooved into the still fragile psyche of a just-born nation. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sullen waiting soon gives way to a propulsive momentum that swiftly carries the chapter into devastation. The donation of the gold, the acclamation of the calf, and the early rising all point to a people eager for a touch of the Divine, for whom the difficult dwelling in the interstitial spaces between knowing and not knowing, remembrance and purpose have proved too arduous. In a wonderful exploration of the knowledge delivered to us by the senses, the tablets-hauling Moses hears the people before he sees them. Joshua has trouble naming the tune, but Moses does not. Damningly, the melody is not one of war or struggle, but the undulating tones of joy, perhaps reminiscent of the last time the people sang, against the crashing waves of the Red Sea. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we lean our ear to the page, we can just make out their song; wild, joyful, holding both the fear of being abandoned and the pleasure of celebrating with abandon. There would be punishment and a reckoning to come. But it might be said that in those moments, the Jewish people felt truly free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>cover illustration:\u00a0<i>The Adoration of the Golden Calf<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 Picture from the\u00a0<a title=\"Hortus deliciarum\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hortus_deliciarum\">Hortus deliciarum<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a title=\"Herrad of Landsberg\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herrad_of_Landsberg\">Herrad of Landsberg<\/a>\u00a0(12th 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