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In chapter 34, God gives Moses and the people a \u201cdo-over\u201dof the giving of the Ten Commandments. This time, God handles things differently. Moses is told to carve the tablets himself. The first time, God helped fashion the tablets. The first time, Moses is told to bring the elders and Aaron with him up the mountain. This time, Moses is told to go up by himself. Both times God descends in a cloud, but the first time God calls out the Ten Commandments. This time, God calls out the Thirteen Attributes of God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The rest of the chapter is very different. God repeats that he will wipe out the nations of the land, but then explains that the people must destroy all idols that they encounter. God then talks about the three pilgrimage festivals and the sanctification of the first born. God then talks about Shabbat. Why does God use this opportunity to talk about destroying the idols and celebrating the pilgrimage festivals and Shabbat?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The second set of tablets begins the transition from Mt. Sinai to the land. In the land of Israel, the people will need to be more self-sufficient and less reliant on God. These commandments are specifically tailored to that goal. God promises to wipe out the nations, but the people must play their part destroying the idols. This is no longer an abstract concept like in the first giving of the tablets. The people see firsthand what can happen when they are confronted by idolatry, even when motivated by the best intentions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Next, the people are told to come to God three times a year, and to observe Shabbat. Notice how God connects these laws with agricultural concepts: the first of your harvest, the first of your fruits, the command to cease to harvest, etc. The historical reasons behind these laws are not given because it is not about the past, but about how the laws will weave into the lives of the people in the land. This is also why God has Moses fashion the tablets to show his partnership in the laws. God also calls out the prayer of the thirteen attributes and not laws brought down on high. If the people want forgiveness, they have to do their part and pray to God. 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In Exodus 33, God recites the divine attributes to Moses: \u201c\u2018The Lord! \u00a0the Lord! a God compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in kindness and faithfulness, extending kindness to the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin; yet by no means does [the Lord] wholly acquit, but visits the iniquity of parents upon children, and children\u2019s children, upon the third and fourth generations\u2019\u201d (34:6-7). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our verses are anticipated in the Ten Commandments, where God, warning Israel not to bow down to or worship idols, declares, \u201cFor I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the guilt of the parents upon the children, upon the third and fourth generations of those who reject Me (<\/span>son\u2019ai<\/span><\/em>), but showing kindness to the thousandth generation of those who love Me and keep my commandments\u201d (Exodus 20:5-6). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Note the dramatic shift in emphasis: Whereas in laying down the law, God begins with the threat of punishment, here, in the wake of apostasy, God leads with the possibility of forgiveness. Moreover, in stark contrast to the formulation in the Ten Commandments, the recitation here contains no reference at all to divine jealousy.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But the two texts differ in an even more powerful way. In Exodus 20, God speaks of showing kindness (<\/span>hesed<\/span><\/em>) to those who love God and keep God\u2019s commandments; after the Golden Calf, however, God sets no limits on who may be the beneficiary of divine grace and compassion. God\u2019s love, it seems, is unconditional. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

And yet the heavy emphasis on God\u2019s mercy should not blind us to the fact that divine judgment it is still very much present. Focusing exclusively on divine mercy would run the risk of creating the insidious illusion that \u201cone can just get away with anything.\u201d As \u00a0Richard Elliot Friedman points out, God reminds us that even in the context of divine mercy, \u201cthere is still justice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The message of these verses in Exodus\u2014and of Jewish theology more broadly\u2014is that although compassion, mercy, and forgiveness are at the very heart of who God is in relation to the world, one may not simply assume that God will forgive. Faith is striving, and although forgiveness is available when we fail, judgment is real\u2014and striving remains obligatory.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Unconditional Love","tile_main_caption":"Faith is striving, and although forgiveness is available when we fail, judgment is real\u2014and striving remains obligatory.","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Exodus","chapter":"34","chapter_main_number":"84","date":"20251224","wall_id":"84"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"375","name":"Faith","old_id":"775"},{"term_id":"391","name":"In\/Justice","old_id":"791"},{"term_id":"541","name":"Revelation","old_id":"941"}]},{"order":4,"id":"43372","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Better When Together ","post_title":"Better When Together","slug":"better-when-together","old_id":"43372","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":43150,"post_title":"Sarah Brammer-Shlay","slug":"sarah-brammer-shlay","old_id":"43150","first_name":"Sarah ","last_name":"Brammer-Shlay","description":"Sarah Brammer-Shlay is a second year rabbinical student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She serves as the Rabbinic Intern at SAJ: Judaism That Stands for All in New York. ","short_description":"Sarah Brammer-Shlay is a second year rabbinical student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and is the Rabbinic Intern at SAJ: Judaism That Stands for All in New York. ","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":43151,"alt":"","title":"Sarah brammer-shlay","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Sarah-brammer-shlay-e1541061857664.png","width":370,"height":351,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Sarah-brammer-shlay-e1541061857664-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Sarah-brammer-shlay-e1541061857664-300x285.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":285,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Sarah-brammer-shlay-e1541061857664.png","medium_large-width":370,"medium_large-height":351,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Sarah-brammer-shlay-e1541061857664.png","large-width":370,"large-height":351,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Sarah-brammer-shlay-e1541061857664.png","1536x1536-width":370,"1536x1536-height":351,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Sarah-brammer-shlay-e1541061857664.png","2048x2048-width":370,"2048x2048-height":351,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Sarah-brammer-shlay-e1541061857664.png","post_full_size-width":370,"post_full_size-height":351,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Sarah-brammer-shlay-426x420.png","home_baner-width":426,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"84","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"Some of our deepest transformations can be difficult to recognize within ourselves","post_main_content_content":"

On October 27, 2018 eleven Jews were murdered at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, an event that sent many in our community into a state of deep grief. In Exodus 34: 29, it states \u201cMoses came down from Mount Sinai. And as Moses came down from the mountain bearing the two tables of the Pact, Moses was not aware that the skin of his face was radiant.\u201d Moses had changed through his interaction with God but he did not notice. We go on to read in verses 34-35, \u00a0<\/span>\u201cwhenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him, he would leave the veil off until he came out; and when he came out and told the Israelites what he had been commanded, the Israelites would see how radiant the skin of Moses\u2019 face was.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses<\/span> was impacted by his relationship with God, and it was seen in a physical manner not from within but from the outside, from others. Some of the deepest transformations we go through as humans are ones that can be difficult to recognize within ourselves. But this serves as just another reminder that even personal transformation is never done in complete solitude. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

I am reminded of this reality during this time of grief. It might be simplistic but we simply are better when together. \u00a0And one reason for that is because people see things in us we cannot see in ourselves. In times of mass tragedy, the forces that bring this moment to be want to leave us isolated. 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Moses, having secured the people\u2019s forgiveness [after the sin of the Golden Calf], asks God to show him His glory (Ex. 33:18). God tells Moses to stand in the crevice of a rock. There God will cause His glory to pass by. Moses will not be able to see God directly, \u201cfor no\u00a0one may see Me and live,\u201d but he will come as close as is possible for a human being. God passed before him and proclaimed what became known as Thirteen Attributes of Mercy (Ex. 34:5\u20137). Note that God speaks these words, not Moses.<\/p>\r\n

What is God doing at this point? The answer becomes clear only two books later, in the book of Numbers. 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>\r\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: \u201cNow may the Lord\u2019s strength be displayed, just as You have declared: \u201cThe Lord is slow to anger, abounding in loving-kindness, forgiving iniquity and rebellion.\u201d Yet He does not leave the guilty unpunished; He punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation. In accordance with Your great love, forgive the sin of these people, just as You have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now.\u201d (Num. 14:17\u201319)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses is doing something he has not done before. 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 Himself had said at Mount Sinai. He says so. He says, \u201cas You have declared,\u201d as if to say, \u201cThese are Your words, not mine.\u201d Only now do we fully understand what God was doing on that previous occasion. He was teaching Moses how to pray.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cIt happened, when Moses was descending from Mount Sinai, that the two Tablets of Testament were in Moses\u2019 hands while he descended the mountain, and Moses was unaware that the skin of his face was shining from His (God) speaking with him (Moses)\u201d (Exodus 34:29).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One doesn\u2019t just return from the mystical realm of Sinai, go down the mountain and rejoin the people. In Moses\u2019 encounter with the Divine, he experiences the 13 Divine Attributes (verses 6-7) which include YHVH (the 4 letter name of God) Lord of kindness, mercy, compassion, truth, patience etc. When Moses descends with the Word of God, he is emanating light. The Divine inspiration takes expression in the thirteen attributes of the Divine. Moses\u2019 response to this exalted revelation is the desire and request of The Holy One to remain with the people of Israel, that is to say, \u00a0let God's presence, these 13 attributes, forever be in our midst (v. 9). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses\u2019 revelation was not just a moment of spiritual ecstasy, it was also a deep and complete experience of all the Divine qualities, and left Moses wanting, even needing, more: more kindness, mercy, truth and compassion. These attributes cannot remain abstract concepts, they must be attached to and be part of our regular daily practice. This is why the middle of the chapter continues with the commandments to stay loyal to The Holy One and celebrate before God three times a year at the Temple. The instruction is a way for the people to connect to God, the source of blessings. 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Bible on the Bench - Exodus 34<\/a><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Bible on the Bench","tile_main_caption":"Chapter 34: A Covenant With Real People","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"with Adam Mintz and Shira Hecht-Koller","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/p5mAknjQPco","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Exodus","chapter":"34","chapter_main_number":"84","date":"20251224","wall_id":"84"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"369","name":"Visual Arts","old_id":"769"}]},{"order":8,"id":"43374","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Tablets: Take Two ","post_title":"Tablets: Take Two","slug":"tablets-take-two","old_id":"43374","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":34243,"post_title":"Moshe Sokolow","slug":"moshe-sokolow","old_id":"34243","first_name":"Moshe","last_name":"Sokolow","description":"Dr. Moshe Sokolow is Associate Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University, and teaches a weekly class in parashat hashavu`a at Lincoln Square Synagogue. He is the author of TANAKH: An Owner\u2019s Manual (Jerusalem: Urim\/Ktav, 2015).\r\n\r\n","short_description":"Dr. Moshe Sokolow is Associate Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":34244,"alt":"","title":"sokolow","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","width":302,"height":300,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow-300x298.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":298,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","medium_large-width":302,"medium_large-height":300,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","large-width":302,"large-height":300,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","1536x1536-width":302,"1536x1536-height":300,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","2048x2048-width":302,"2048x2048-height":300,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","post_full_size-width":302,"post_full_size-height":300,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","home_baner-width":302,"home_baner-height":300}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"84","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"Moses, like God, hides his face ","post_main_content_content":"

In this chapter, God summons Moses, once again, atop Mt. Sinai to receive two replacement tablets for those he shattered upon seeing the Israelites celebrating the golden calf. This second revelation bears some similarities to the original revelation of the Law but we note some striking differences as well.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The key verse in this regard is v. 28:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He remained there with God forty days and forty nights, not eating bread nor drinking water, and he inscribed on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten statements.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Once again Moses spent 40 days and 40 nights atop the mountain (compare Exodus 24:18), foregoing food and drink (compare Deut. 9:9), and he descended with two stone tablets. This time, however, rather than having been written \u201cwith a divine finger\u201d (31:18) the tablets were inscribed by Moses himself.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Along with the changed circumstances, there is a remarkable change in Moses himself. As the very next verse informs us, \u201c\u2026Moses did not realize that his face was shining when speaking to Him [God].\u201d This shining (Hebrew: <\/span>karan<\/span><\/em>, (mis)interpreted in some medieval texts and art as horns) forced Moses to veil his face while speaking to the people, removing it only to speak, again, with God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In verse 23 of the previous chapter, God had cautioned Moses \u201c\u2026You shall see My back but My face will not be visible.\u201d Taken together with verses. 23-25 of our current chapter, this yields a remarkable symmetry: Just as God\u2019s face cannot be viewed, so could Moses\u2019s face not be viewed, implying that his proximity to God and his instrumentality in delivering the Law had elevated him to a position that was nearly divine.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Small wonder that he is designated: \u201cMoses, the man of God\u201d (Deut. 32:1).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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It wasn\u2019t only Moses who was unaware that his face was radiant when he descended the mountain with the second set of tablets. Walking down Fifth Avenue a number of weeks ago I snapped a picture of a statue on a \u00a0church on 90<\/span>th<\/span> street.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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This statue is of course just one of hundreds that depict our great prophet and lawgiver with horns. The Most well-known statue of a horned Moses is Michelangelo\u2019s statue, exhibited in the church of St. Peter in Chains in Rome.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The horns are traced back to the Vulgate, St. Jerome\u2019s 4<\/span>th<\/span> century translation of the Bible into Latin. The word Keren, from the root KRN, \u00a0has many possible meanings, but most commonly is a horn, the Vulgate\u2019s reading \u201chis face was horned.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jerome\u2019s mistranslation has not only been depicted in numerous statues, it also made its way into many Anti-Semitic creeds, the horned Jews in league with the devil.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But Bena Elisha Medjuck, in a thesis written twenty years ago, argues convincingly that Jerome\u2019s translation wasn\u2019t mistaken but was deliberate. In many ancient society horns were symbols of strength and power. \u00a0One such example (and there are many) is the depiction of Alexander the Great in a Greek silver coin with ram\u2019s horns. (displayed at the British Museum)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Jerome intentionally chose the translation of horn, because horns conveyed the idea that Moses was a man of incredible strength, power, and glory due to his speaking with God. Tragically horns transformed from a symbol of strength and closeness to God, to one demonstrating some sort of pact with the devil. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Just please don\u2019t tell my radiant daughter Keren.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"Horns: Symbol Of Power - Or Evil?","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"That mistranslation just might have been intentional","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":43185,"alt":"","title":"ex34-Gitler2","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ex34-Gitler2.jpg","width":183,"height":275,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ex34-Gitler2-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ex34-Gitler2.jpg","medium-width":183,"medium-height":275,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ex34-Gitler2.jpg","medium_large-width":183,"medium_large-height":275,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ex34-Gitler2.jpg","large-width":183,"large-height":275,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ex34-Gitler2.jpg","1536x1536-width":183,"1536x1536-height":275,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ex34-Gitler2.jpg","2048x2048-width":183,"2048x2048-height":275,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ex34-Gitler2.jpg","post_full_size-width":183,"post_full_size-height":275,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ex34-Gitler2.jpg","home_baner-width":183,"home_baner-height":275}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Exodus","chapter":"34","chapter_main_number":"84","date":"20251224","wall_id":"84"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"369","name":"Visual Arts","old_id":"769"},{"term_id":"397","name":"Moses","old_id":"797"}]},{"order":10,"id":"43367","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"In The Aftermath Of The Golden Calf ","post_title":"In The Aftermath Of The Golden Calf","slug":"in-the-aftermath-of-the-golden-calf","old_id":"43367","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":36669,"post_title":"Yakov Azriel","slug":"yakov-azriel","old_id":"36669","first_name":"Yakov ","last_name":"Azriel","description":"Yakov Azriel, who lives in Israel, has published five books of poetry in the USA and hundreds of poems in journals and magazines. 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\u201cFor you shall not bow down to any other god \u2026 \u201d (Exodus 34:14)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201c<\/span>Bring me the golden necklaces and rings
\r\n<\/span>Your brides are given when they marry; bring
\r\n<\/span>Me all your ornaments, and everything
\r\n<\/span>That glitters; bring me crowns of anointed kings.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

Bring me your summers, winters, falls and springs;
\r\n<\/span>Bring me your parents' music, echoing
\r\n<\/span>Within your dreams, as all your children sing
\r\n<\/span>Of sacred temples graced by angels' wings.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

\u201c<\/span>And bring me your souls, as the sacrifice
\r\n<\/span>Which you must offer on my altar's fire.<\/span> \u201d
\r\n<\/span><\/em>Once, I had thought the Golden Calf was dead<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And gone for good; but no \u2014 like stubborn lice
\r\n<\/span>That will not go away, like shame, like desire,
\r\n<\/span>He gores my mind, demanding to be fed. <\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":94680,"alt":"","title":"job22-treasure chest","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/job22-treasure-chest.jpg","width":1920,"height":1743,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/job22-treasure-chest-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/job22-treasure-chest-300x272.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":272,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/job22-treasure-chest-768x697.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":697,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/job22-treasure-chest-1024x930.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":930,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/job22-treasure-chest.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1394,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/job22-treasure-chest.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1743,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/job22-treasure-chest-1200x1089.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1089,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/job22-treasure-chest-463x420.jpg","home_baner-width":463,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"929 Poetry Corner","tile_main_caption":"In The Aftermath Of The Golden Calf","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Bring me the golden necklaces and rings \/ Bring me your summers, winters, falls and springs","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":94680,"alt":"","title":"job22-treasure chest","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/job22-treasure-chest.jpg","width":1920,"height":1743,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/job22-treasure-chest-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/job22-treasure-chest-300x272.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":272,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/job22-treasure-chest-768x697.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":697,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/job22-treasure-chest-1024x930.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":930,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/job22-treasure-chest.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1394,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/job22-treasure-chest.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1743,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/job22-treasure-chest-1200x1089.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1089,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/job22-treasure-chest-463x420.jpg","home_baner-width":463,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Exodus","chapter":"34","chapter_main_number":"84","date":"20251224","wall_id":"84"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"362","name":"Poetry","old_id":"762"},{"term_id":"695","name":"Calf","old_id":"1095"}]},{"order":11,"id":"43497","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"A Lesson on the Daily Chapter- Exodus 34 ","post_title":"A Lesson on the Daily Chapter- Exodus 34","slug":"a-lesson-on-the-daily-chapter-exodus-34","old_id":"43497","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":40936,"post_title":"David Silber","slug":"david-silber-2","old_id":"40936","first_name":"David ","last_name":"Silber ","description":"Rabbi David Silber is the Founder and Dean of Drisha Institute for Jewish Education. 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  1. Extra-careful<\/em>. \u201c...neither shall the flocks and the herds graze at the foot of this mountain\u201d (verse 3).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Justice and mercy<\/em>. God\u2019s 13 attributes which God reveals to Moses in verses 6-7 reveal the complexity of the divine character: God both \u201cextends kindness\u201d and \u201cvisits iniquity.\u201d Which is God more - justice or mercy? Count the mentions in these verses - and you\u2019ll know the score.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Penitence and forgiveness<\/em>. It\u2019s not for nothing that verses 5-8 became an integral part of the penitential prayers said during the month of Elul, the ten days of repentance, and even more so, on Yom Kippur.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Make up, and move on<\/em>. Moses requests: \u201clet the Lord go in our midst, even though this is a stiff-necked people. Pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Your own!\u201d (verse 9). A stiff-necked people, that\u2019s the reality. That\u2019s the basic condition for continuing together.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. A jealous God<\/em>. Faith implies total loyalty. Treason is met with jealousy. \u201cFor you must not worship any other god, because the LORD, whose name is Impassioned, is an impassioned [<\/span>kana<\/span><\/em>\u2019<\/span><\/i>, jealous] God\u201d (verse 14 - remember what happened two short chapters ago?).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  6. After the holidays<\/em>. Amongst the verses renewing the covenant, and the reception of the second tablets, there is a collection of laws concerning holidays (verses 18-26). What are they doing here? What\u2019s the overall message? You\u2019re invited to think about possibilities, and also check out what the commentators have to say. <\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"The Daily Summary","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder: Exodus 34","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Exodus","chapter":"34","chapter_main_number":"84","date":"20251224","wall_id":"84"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/43309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}