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    Parashat Hashavuah - Tabernacle vs. Golden Calf

    Posted by Lev/Christopher on March 12, 2009 at 1:48pm
    in Torah Studies

    Parashat Hashavuah

    Ki Tisa - כי תשא : "When you take"
    Torah : Exodus 30:11-34:35
    Haftarah : 1 Kings 18:1-39
    Gospel : Mark 13-14

    Tabernacle vs. Golden Calf
    Thought for the Week
    We find it all too easy to go from being spiritually high to plummeting into sin and disobedience when the buzz wears off&mdashpand it always wears off. Part of the solution is to quit looking for spiritual buzzes. A traveler who is always charging up mountaintops and then sliding down into valleys will not get very far. If he wants to achieve real progress, he needs to stay on the level ridge routes, avoiding the peaks and the dips. We need to work on the simple, day-to-day
    disciplines of faith.

    Commentary

    Aaron said to them, "Tear off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me." (Exodus 32:2)
    When we attempt to "do religion" without first consulting God's instructions, we end up with golden calves. The Torah tells the story of the golden calf in juxtaposition to the instructions for the building of the Tabernacle. The Tabernacle represents God's way of doing spirituality. The golden calf represents man's way of doing spirituality. God and Israel were both striving for the same end: they were each attempting to create a medium whereby Israel could worship God and celebrate their relationship with Him. Their methods of accomplishing that end were very different, though.

    The golden calf was a poor substitute for the glory of the Tabernacle. The Torah tells about the work of making the golden calf to contrast it against the work of the Tabernacle.

    Aaron did not know that God had chosen to make him the high priest over Israel. When the people asked him to make an idol for them, he took the role of priesthood himself. If he had waited for Moses to return, he would have learned that God had chosen to install him as a priest in the Tabernacle.

    The people did not know that God had ordered them to raise a contribution of gold and precious materials for the building of the Tabernacle. If they had waited, Moses would have told them. Instead, Aaron told them to donate the gold of their jewelry for the idol.

    The people were to fashion the furnishings of the Tabernacle of gold. Instead, Aaron fashioned the idol "with a graving tool and made it into a molten calf" (Exodus 32:4). The people were to build a bronze altar for burnt offerings and a golden altar for incense. Instead, we read that "he built an altar" (Exodus 32:5) for the idol. The people were to offer burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar in the Tabernacle. Instead, we read that the people "offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings" (Exodus 32:6) to the idol. The Tabernacle was to be a resting place of God's divine, invisible presence. Instead, the people made a visible, idolatrous representation of God. All the things that Israel desired, God had already planned to give them.

    A girl from a poor farmer's family was ready to be married. Her father promised to find a match for her. He set out for a distant city to find a suitable fellow. In his absence, she grew impatient. She was lonely, and she felt that she needed someone to provide for her. Rather than wait for her father to return, she married the crass and ignorant son of a local farmer. The day after the wedding, her father returned with the match he had found: a wealthy, handsome, and well-educated young noble. Imagine the girl's shame and disappointment.

    Patience really is a virtue. It is always better to wait on God.

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    I see Aharon's constructing of the calf as his representation not of a different god, but of the God of Israel. The sin is the same; but it clarifies how even small errors in the doctrine of the most learned can lead to an end result (the dead, golden idol) which is devoid of life and spirit.

    Aaron, like the rest of Israel (which is why he and all but Joshua and Caleb had to die in the wilderness), was still steeped in Egyptian idolatrous practice and belief. It took a full generation to fully adjust the nation's thinking and set it on a Torah-centric course. But I agree - I don't think Aaron's intent was to turn to the gods of Egypt for support - his real sin was compromise and appeasement, just as the Roman Church in syncretising paganism with the Gospel/Besorah to make it more appealing to the Roman pagans. At the back of his head, I suspect, was the vain idea that YHWH could still be worshipped by adding a few pagan externals.The result was not mere lifelessness but also an open invitation to the demonic to pour into the camp of Israel, which it did, resulting in pagan revelry.

    Exactly, he chose to represent YHWH through means and signs not sanctified by Him.
    This ties in with the sin of calling upon The Lord, but not doing his will, and calls to mind the parable of the two sons: one said he would not do the father's will, but did afterward - the other said he would, but did not.

    They had just barely left the spiritual Sodom and Babylon that Egypt was, foremost among all the ancient archetypes of the Satanic State/Church-system. As the Romans/catholics chose to describe and interpret YHWH according to the traditions of their polytheistic faith, so too did the early Israelites, even unto the time of the Babylonian captivity, and when they returned, they had yet again to separate themselves from traditions picked up there; the stay in Babylon also warped the Hebrew calendar (in mostly nominal and insignificant, but still apparent ways) which remains to this day.

    Agreed. Though the Babylonian stay did more than warp the calendar, it also introduced the new Hebrew alphabet which was specifically designed by occultists amongt them to hide up their kaballistic deceptions too which everywhere permeate Orthodox Judaism and much of Messianism. The latter has, in effect, become a branch of occultism and a new kind of syncretism. The earlier pictographic form of Hebrew is the original and contains many important keys and is something I would like to make a more detailed study of here when I can find the time.

    Christian said:
    Exactly, he chose to represent YHWH through means and signs not sanctified by Him.
    This ties in with the sin of calling upon The Lord, but not doing his will, and calls to mind the parable of the two sons: one said he would not do the father's will, but did afterward - the other said he would, but did not.

    They had just barely left the spiritual Sodom and Babylon that Egypt was, foremost among all the ancient archetypes of the Satanic State/Church-system. As the Romans/catholics chose to describe and interpret YHWH according to the traditions of their polytheistic faith, so too did the early Israelites, even unto the time of the Babylonian captivity, and when they returned, they had yet again to separate themselves from traditions picked up there; the stay in Babylon also warped the Hebrew calendar (in mostly nominal and insignificant, but still apparent ways) which remains to this day.

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