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In Ex. 33 we have the great scene when Moses, having secured the people\u2019s forgiveness, asks God to show him His glory. God tells Moses to stand in the crevice of a rock:<\/span><\/p>\n

And the Lord passed by before him and proclaimed: \u201cThe Lord, the Lord, compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving-kindness and truth, extending loving-kindness to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, rebellion and sin, and absolving [the guilty who repent]\u2026\u201d (Exodus 34:5-7)<\/span><\/p>\n

Note that God speaks these words, which became known as the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy, not Moses. What is God doing at this point? God Himself says, \u201cI am making a covenant with you\u201d (Ex. 34:10). What then is this new covenant with Moses? The answer to all these questions becomes clear only two books later, in the book of Numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is then that the people commit another sin as grievous as the making of the golden calf. Moses had sent spies to look at the land. They had come back with a demoralizing report. The land is indeed good, they said, flowing with milk and honey. But the people are strong. Their cities are highly fortified. We will not be able to defeat them. They are giants. We are grasshoppers (Num 13).<\/span><\/p>\n

At this point the people, despondent and hopeless, say, \u201cLet\u2019s choose a leader and go back to Egypt\u201d (Num. 14:4). As He did at the time of the golden calf, God threatens to destroy the people and begin a nation anew with Moses. Again Moses prays to God to forgive the people, for His sake if not for theirs. Then he adds a new element to his prayer (Numbers 14:17-19).Previously he has prayed on the basis of how God\u2019s acts will look to the world, and on the basis of His covenant with the patriarchs. Now he is praying on the basis of God\u2019s own nature. He is, as it were, recalling God to Himself. Essentially he is repeating what God had said at Mount Sinai. He says, \u201cas You have declared,\u201d as if to say, \u201cThese are Your words not mine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Only now do we fully understand what God was doing on that previous occasion. He was teaching Moses how to pray. No sooner does Moses pray this prayer, than God says two momentous words that will be repeated time and again during Yom Kippur: Sala\u0125ti kidvarekha<\/em>, \u201cI have forgiven, as you asked\u201d (Num. 14:20). <\/span><\/p>\n

So forgiveness for the sin of the golden calf was more than a one-time event. It gave Moses and his successors the words needed to secure divine forgiveness on other occasions also. The Thirteen Attributes of Mercy are the prayer God taught humanity, the prayer Moses used successfully after the episode of the spies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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