Anonymous ID: 4176f8 Feb. 20, 2024, 4:42 a.m. No.20445648   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5669

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"As this was happening, the erev rav (“mixed multitude”)—a ragtag group of Egyptian outcasts4 who had tagged along with the Jews when they left Egypt, and who were insincere in their commitment to G‑d—convinced the people that Moses was dead and that they needed a new leader. Terrified, the Jewish people gathered around Aaron, Moses’ brother, and demanded that he make them a new leader. (The commentators note that, at this point, the people only wanted a new leader in place of Moses, not a new G‑d.5) Aaron told them to go home and collect their wives’ jewelry and bring it back to him. Crazed, the men ripped off their own jewelry and threw it into a fire. And out of the fire a golden calf emerged."